Local woman turns 110

Local woman turns 110

Augusta Fisher celebrates birthday milestone

ralphhardin@gmail.com In 2014, the Evening Times ran a story on a local woman who was turning 108. Today, she’s still with us at the amazing age of 110. Sure, here in 2016, it’s Trump vs. Clinton in the race for the White House, but Teddy Roosevelt was President of the United States when Augusta Fisher was born on Aug. 2, 1906, in Olive Branch, Mississippi. The Social Security Office actually has it as “08-02-1907” because of a clerical error after the building where birth certificates were housed back then caught on fire and was burned to the ground, but the general consensus is that “aught-six” is correct.

In her lifetime, Fisher has seen two world wars, the Civil Rights Movement, the rise and fall of Communism in Europe, a man walk on the moon, the invention of television and more.

She currently lives at Turrell Meadows Senior Housing in Turrell. She has lived past her mom’s age, which is quite impressive, as she lived to be 105. She had two children, one of whom is now deceased). From these two children she has 15 grandchildren, 114 great-grandchildren, 83 great-great-grandchildren and 5 great-great-greatgrandchildren.

She still gets around better than some of us, does her own cooking and cleaning.

She credits her longevity to her strong faith in God and loves to eat greens daily, if she can.

Ms. Fisher has been featured twice in the Evening Times. In a 2012 interview, she described her earliest memory as the Great Flood of 1912, and said her greatest experience in life was being born again in 1919.

“The Holy Spirit got on me and I just fell out and I didn’t know nothing,” she said of the religious experience

that has molded her life ever since. Family and friends celebrated her birthday this past weekend with

a special gathering.

By Ralph Hardin