Here is a way cool story:
Friday, June 17, 2005
Byron Crawford
Eat some fat, and you too may reach 100
Oh my! Did some insurance agent ever goof back in 1923.
Whoever turned down Demetra Ferguson of Sonora for a policy because he considered her to be overweight and a poor health risk just may have missed out on 82 years of premium payments.
Ferguson is still a bit overweight -- on the eve of her 100th birthday next Thursday.
"I wanted to get some insurance, just for women, maybe. I don't remember what the company was," she said this week. "They wouldn't take me. They said I was too heavy. I might have been 160 pounds, I don't know."
Chances are the insurance agent has long since passed on to that final resting place of whole life policies, but Demetra Ferguson is still living in the same house that has been her home since she married in the summer of 1922.
She is still eating sausage fried on the same GE electric range -- and eating ice cream that she keeps in the same GE refrigerator -- that she got in the mid-1940s when her home was wired for electricity.
"When we get tenderloin and cut off the outer fat, she gets it and cooks it for herself," said her daughter-in-law, Carol Ferguson. "She's always loved fat meat."
Demetra Jones Ferguson, the oldest of three children, was born in a log house on an adjacent Hardin County farm on June 23, 1905, four months before Orville Wright took his first 30-minute airplane flight.
During her teen years, when World War I was raging, she can recall alternately wanting to be a nurse, a missionary and a mother.
"We had a pastor one time, and I was telling him about it, and he said, 'You're all three.' He said, 'You've got a daughter that's a nurse, you've got a daughter that's a missionary, and you are a mother.' "
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Friday, June 17, 2005
Byron Crawford
Eat some fat, and you too may reach 100
Oh my! Did some insurance agent ever goof back in 1923.
Whoever turned down Demetra Ferguson of Sonora for a policy because he considered her to be overweight and a poor health risk just may have missed out on 82 years of premium payments.
Ferguson is still a bit overweight -- on the eve of her 100th birthday next Thursday.
"I wanted to get some insurance, just for women, maybe. I don't remember what the company was," she said this week. "They wouldn't take me. They said I was too heavy. I might have been 160 pounds, I don't know."
Chances are the insurance agent has long since passed on to that final resting place of whole life policies, but Demetra Ferguson is still living in the same house that has been her home since she married in the summer of 1922.
She is still eating sausage fried on the same GE electric range -- and eating ice cream that she keeps in the same GE refrigerator -- that she got in the mid-1940s when her home was wired for electricity.
"When we get tenderloin and cut off the outer fat, she gets it and cooks it for herself," said her daughter-in-law, Carol Ferguson. "She's always loved fat meat."
Demetra Jones Ferguson, the oldest of three children, was born in a log house on an adjacent Hardin County farm on June 23, 1905, four months before Orville Wright took his first 30-minute airplane flight.
During her teen years, when World War I was raging, she can recall alternately wanting to be a nurse, a missionary and a mother.
"We had a pastor one time, and I was telling him about it, and he said, 'You're all three.' He said, 'You've got a daughter that's a nurse, you've got a daughter that's a missionary, and you are a mother.' "
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