One Hundred Years Young and Counting

Alice Lucille Kingrey is 100 years of age and looking forward to celebrating her next birthday on November 30.

 She was born in 1911 in Clifton Forge, Virginia, the daughter of Bertha Lee and David William Plewes. The family soon moved toRoanokewhere David was employed at The American Viscose as an electrical engineer. Lucille’s daughter, Mary Lee Hunt, says her mother thinks she was around the age of six when they moved toRoanokebecause she “vividly remembers going to school in the first grade atWest EndElementary School.”

According to Lucille, she has had a good life. Though she lost her husband, Frank Kingrey, when she was only 55 years old, she has been content with life no matter what the events of the day held. As she has always been a giver, she has taken great joy in helping others. Her children and grandchildren think that she is “beyond special.”

Lucille was “gifted by God” for her gifts of an abundance of intelligence and creative skills, as well as a great attitude and lots of laughter. Today, Lucille stays busy doing the things she likes to do. She bakes “wonderful cookies and bread and makes her own greeting cards.”

Additionally she makes quilts for the Rescue Mission and beautiful cotton bags to hold personal items and soft wound bandages that will go toHaitiand northernAfricawith a medical mission team. She also makes pretty bags to hold shoes and jewelry for traveling which she, her daughter and granddaughter give as gifts.

Whatever the need, Lucille is excited to use her many talents to fill that need and to give those products of her efforts with her love and blessings. Lucille is an inspiration to all who know her as well as a warm friend.

–  Gail Lambert

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