SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Celebrating a huge milestone, a senior citizen home in East Sacramento was not just celebrating one birthday but nine. Nine seniors at Mercy McMahon Terrace Senior Living were all celebrating milestone birthdays.
Louisa Perazzo is currently 101 years old. She grew up in Northern California, and her husband was a veteran.
Lina Rossetto will be 103 years old. She worked with her family in the vineyards in Italy. During her lifetime, she has met three Popes and had a personal audience with one of them.
Ernest Clausen is a Navy veteran and will be 103 years old.
Eleanor McCabe will be 103 years old. She describes herself as a lifelong learner. Marge Wilde will soon be 102 years old. Anna Hinsz will be 101 years old on Thursday.
Joe Alvarez also a veteran is currently 102 years old.
Lupe Rivera will be 102 years old
All together, that's just shy of a thousand years of life lived collectively.
For Anna Hinsz, celebrating being a centenarian in her family is really no big deal.
“Four girls all over one hundred, my sister lived to 107, one 103, one 102 and now I’m 101 and still going,” said Hinsz.
For Lupe Rivera, it was the half point in her fifties that stood out the most to her.
It was the year her two children graduated from Sacramento State University. She got her diploma at the same time.
“I continued and earned a Masters, because I wanted to work in the school district and I accomplished that at the age of 50,” said Rivera.
For Ernest Clausen, his most memorable birthday is when he was seated with celebrities on a train.
“Jack Dempsey was on the train from Texas to New Orleans, and his wife Estelle Taylor was with him and we walked up to the front of the train where they had a private state room and we knocked on the door and they said 'Come in,'” said Clausen.
The navy veteran has survived a lot. He was first an aviation technician, and he was later stationed off the coast of Africa.
“I did submarines, Japanese submarines and German submarines,” said Clausen.
For a group born in the Prohibition era, it was only right that they pop champagne to celebrate, and they received a once in a lifetime gift. It was an official proclamation issued by Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and a key to the city.
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