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KINGSBURG, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) — The Kingsburg Care Center is celebrating a precise peculiar birthday. Esta Steuben celebrated her 107th day connected Sunday with her daughter, friends and unit astatine the attraction center.
Esta is known arsenic a diligent idiosyncratic who goes with the flow. She was calved successful Southern California successful 1918, and life’s travel took her crossed the country.
“I ne'er thought I'd beryllium doing this connected immoderate birthday, and it's quite, rather a surprise,” Esta Steuben said.
Her girl and friends amazed her with barroom and crystal pick for her 107th day connected Sunday.
“She grew up successful Glendale, California. She ended up marrying a antheral who lived successful the distant portion of Maine, and each of a abrupt it was a caller life,” Esta’s person Bob White said.
Esta’s beingness wasn’t lone spent successful Southern California. Her caller household moved to the East Coast during World War II.
“We moved to Maine and connected a farm, ma had to larn to navigator connected a wood stove. We had nary electricity. We did person moving h2o and indoor plumbing. So I deliberation she would person said, 'No, I'm not doing it otherwise.' But truthful she had to alteration her manner considerably,” Esta’s girl Ellen Riley said.
Esta traded highways for hay bales for 3 decades. When her hubby retired, they ventured backmost retired westbound and met their soon-to-be longtime person Bob.
“I was a ranger successful Kings Canyon Park, and Esther and Doug, her husband, showed up. They came primitively from Maine, and they started moving successful the park,” White said.
Bob became adjacent friends with Esta and her husband. She inactive remembers riding connected Bob's motorcycle to work.
“She was successful her 70s going to enactment connected the backmost of a motorcycle,” Riley said.
Age is conscionable a fig to Esta. She recalls the thrill of riding.
“I went done the parkland connected his motorcycle. It was rather a ride,” Steuben said.
Esta lives a afloat life, and she has nary plans to dilatory down.
“I conscionable consciousness fine. I don't deliberation it's immoderate antithetic than immoderate different day. I americium precise fortunate that I haven't had immoderate superior illnesses that person kept maine from enjoying life,” Steuben said.
Her daughter, Ellen, couldn’t beryllium happier to stock much memorable moments with her chill mom.
“It's wonderful. And everybody has said, if you're going to person a enactment for your mother, I privation to beryllium there. You are definite to invitation me,” Riley said.
And, Esta is sharing a connection with america each connected her peculiar day.
“I anticipation you bask your wellness arsenic you get older arsenic overmuch arsenic I’ve enjoyed mine,” Steuben said.
From each of us, Happy Birthday Esta!
