Vera Enquist was honored at the Long Beach Officers Wives Club in celebration of her 100th birthday. Vera is a retired Army major who has served her country since 1941, when she graduated and came to an Army Hospital in Riverside. She served in Japan, Germany and San Francisco before moving to Lakewood in 1962. The club meets at the Long Beach Yacht Club the first Wednesday of each month.
-- Rhea Black
Viola Norman recently celebrated her 97th birthday. She was a sharecropper, she picked up cans in Long Beach for 30 years, she was known as the bag lady, and she attended First Providence Missionary Baptist Church at 801 Hill St. Long Beach until she became too ill to attend. Her favorite color is pink. She was born July 26,1912. She is of the Johnson clan in Scott, Arkansas, and she is the oldest citizen of the Sixth District in Long Beach.
-- Hattie Bass
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