Mary Springs knows the secret to living a long life. She says it's blueberries and beer reported the Dodge City Daily Globe.
"The beer is for the veins, and the blueberries is for your brains," she says, then laughs.
Mary Spriggs was born on a blanket outside her grandmother’s bedroom window in Cimarron, Kansas. It was a cold November afternoon in 1914. Lydia Jane Riley went into labor during a ladies luncheon, and went outdoors to deliver her first of seven children.
The centenarian’s lived through the dust bowl, attended a one-room school house, and learned to dance listening to the Victrola.
Spriggs worked like a man as a young girl on the family farm. That continued after she was married.
"Working on the farm, you make life what you want," she says. "I worked alongside my husband. I was going so fast, I couldn't keep up."
Spriggs says she’s not 100. She’s 18 with 82 years of experience.
Mary Spriggs lives in Dodge City, Kansas.
