Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Hard Work, Gardening and Pollen - the Recipe for Long Life
Fred Hale, the world's oldest man, has died in New York state just short of his 114th birthday ...
He had honey on his cereal and a teaspoon of pollen. But his outlook on life was that he liked to work. He worked in his garden until he was 107, and he did a lot of walking.
There was something else - what his son described as an "easy temperament".
"He had a good personality, and lots of friends. He had a big garden and he would feed the neighbourhood with apples, strawberries and raspberries." [said his son Fred Jr.] ...
[Fred Sr. held the] record as the world's oldest ever driver. He was still behind the wheel in 1995, at the age of 107, and complaining when he got stuck behind slow vehicles.
By the time he died, he had outlived three of his five children. He had nine grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and 11 great-great-grandchildren.
The view from the local sports pages is that Mr Hale hung on long enough to witness New England's age-old dream, the Boston Red Sox winning baseball's World Series last month. ... "He was happy when they won, but it wasn't essential to his life," [said Fred Jr.] ...
For all his love of habit, he was not afraid of trying new things. When he was 95, he flew to Japan to visit his grandson Chris, who was serving in the navy there. He stopped off in Hawaii, donned some tropical print shorts and attempted to boogie-board (surfing on a small board).
... He was keen for things." [said grandson, Fred Hale III] ...
Fred Hale, the world's oldest man, has died in New York state just short of his 114th birthday ...
He had honey on his cereal and a teaspoon of pollen. But his outlook on life was that he liked to work. He worked in his garden until he was 107, and he did a lot of walking.
There was something else - what his son described as an "easy temperament".
"He had a good personality, and lots of friends. He had a big garden and he would feed the neighbourhood with apples, strawberries and raspberries." [said his son Fred Jr.] ...
[Fred Sr. held the] record as the world's oldest ever driver. He was still behind the wheel in 1995, at the age of 107, and complaining when he got stuck behind slow vehicles.
By the time he died, he had outlived three of his five children. He had nine grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and 11 great-great-grandchildren.
The view from the local sports pages is that Mr Hale hung on long enough to witness New England's age-old dream, the Boston Red Sox winning baseball's World Series last month. ... "He was happy when they won, but it wasn't essential to his life," [said Fred Jr.] ...
For all his love of habit, he was not afraid of trying new things. When he was 95, he flew to Japan to visit his grandson Chris, who was serving in the navy there. He stopped off in Hawaii, donned some tropical print shorts and attempted to boogie-board (surfing on a small board).
... He was keen for things." [said grandson, Fred Hale III] ...
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