{"id":123436,"date":"2023-10-06T07:52:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T11:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=123436"},"modified":"2023-10-06T15:08:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T19:08:20","slug":"northampton-countys-annual-centenarian-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=123436","title":{"rendered":"Northampton County\u2019s Annual Centenarian Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, October 5th, the Area Agency on Aging Advisory Board held its Centenarian Luncheon at the Green Pond Country Club. Thirty-one Northampton County residents, ages 100 to 110, attended with their family and friends and enjoyed lunch and entertainment by the\u00a0<em>Lehigh Valley Sweet Adelines<\/em>. County Executive Lamont G. McClure joined the celebration and presented proclamations to all Centenarians in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>The Centenarian Luncheon is an annual event to honor Northampton County residents who are 100 years of age or older. The Centenarians who celebrated this year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>William Aubrey Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Eleanor Burke<\/li>\n<li>Dorothea Butler<\/li>\n<li>William Diehl<\/li>\n<li>Shirley Eberhardt<\/li>\n<li>Pearl Eberts<\/li>\n<li>Theresa Esposito<\/li>\n<li>Elsie Frey<\/li>\n<li>Alois Groegler<\/li>\n<li>Mary Harris<\/li>\n<li>Rita Higgins-Cramer<\/li>\n<li>Marie Houle<\/li>\n<li>Mary Hontz<\/li>\n<li>Rita Huttie<\/li>\n<li>Orphia Jelinek<\/li>\n<li>Donald Mansfield Jones<\/li>\n<li>Rose Knesz<\/li>\n<li>Dorothea Kromer<\/li>\n<li>Ollie Lawson<\/li>\n<li>Gene Luff<\/li>\n<li>Grace Miles<\/li>\n<li>Alice Moll<\/li>\n<li>Meryl Reiss<\/li>\n<li>Kenneth Saff<\/li>\n<li>Edna Scott<\/li>\n<li>Edna Spevak<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Tresslar<\/li>\n<li>Charles Volpe<\/li>\n<li>Robert Wasser<\/li>\n<li>Betty Younkin<\/li>\n<li>Myra Zoccola<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-123437 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/70q.ab7.mytemp.website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/100-old.jpg?resize=474%2C356\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/100-old.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/100-old.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/100-old.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/100-old.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/100-old.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nBrittney Waylen<br \/>\nDeputy Director of Administration &amp; Public Information Officer<br \/>\nCounty of Northampton<br \/>\n669 Washington Street<br \/>\nEaston, PA 18042<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, October 5th, the Area Agency on Aging Advisory Board held its Centenarian Luncheon at the Green Pond Country Club. Thirty-one Northampton County residents, ages 100 to 110, attended with their family and friends and enjoyed lunch and entertainment by the\u00a0Lehigh Valley Sweet Adelines. County Executive Lamont G. McClure joined the celebration and presented &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=123436\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Northampton County\u2019s Annual Centenarian Celebration<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[69,5738,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-northampton-county","category-press-release-2"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Centenarian-lunch.jpg?fit=672%2C372&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}