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Local resident celebrates a milestone with a smile
Lavon Hill is happy to be 100.
"Everybody has been so good, it almost pays to be 100," Lavon Hill said.
The centenarian celebrated during a reception in her honor at Scott View Apartments.
"She is a girly girl. She always wears jewelry, gets her hair fixed every week and loves to go to movies and the theater," said her niece, Ruth Lybarger of Iola.
Lybarger is one of Hill's 10 nieces and nephews. Hill and her husband, Lloyd, had no children, and Lybarger feels especially close to her aunt, since Lybarger's father was killed in a car accident.
According to Lybarger, Hill still plays the piano and organ and recently played for a wedding at the apartments.
"Music and church work has been her whole life," Lybarger said. "She has an impeccable memory."
Hill was an active member of the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints.
Longevity runs in the family. Her mother lived to be 101.
"I had a reception for her here on her birthday," Hill said.
Her mother also lived at the apartments about 20 years ago and for a time, Hill lived at the same apartment complex.
Asked what the secret of her longevity is, Hill replied smiling, "Get plenty of sleep, eat all good food, and don't miss the Young and the Restless soap opera."
A memory that sticks out the most through the years for her is World War II.
"I wouldn't want to go through that again. That was a sad, sad period, five years of World War II. My husband, Lloyd Hill, was in service for 31 months," Hill said. "My older brother was a prisoner of war in Germany for 27 months. My youngest brother was on Guam for two years. My sister's husband was killed at Iwo Jima."