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Luis Caffesse

Luis Caffesse

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I was in Argentina for the past 10 days or so visiting my family.
I had the good fortune to be able to go celebrate my grandfather's 100th birthday with the whole family. He's still doing fine and sharp as a tack. Amazing.

Just curious... anyone else here know anyone who's lived to 100 or more?

Also...what did I miss?
Anything good?
 
wow. 100 years old! that's awesome. my great grandma is close to 100.. she's 95 and has to have a pace maker put in this week. she's an active woman for her age. i joke that she's going to outlive me LOL.

100 is a great milestone. that's cool that you got to celebrate it with the family.
 
welcome back

what part of Argentina?

that is great your grandfather is 100. my great grandfather is 98.
 
Welcome back!

I've got a couple of relatives in Germany that recently celebrated the big 100. I guess beer and kraut is good for you after all.
 
KOVAROVA said:
what part of Argentina?
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La Plata - just outside of Buenos Aires.
Both of my parents were from there and moved to the United States about 35 years ago. So most of the extended family is still there.

HorseFilms said:
I've got a couple of relatives in Germany that recently celebrated the big 100. I guess beer and kraut is good for you after all.
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wow, a COUPLE of relatives?
You might make it to old age after all then.

My grandfather's parents lived to 98 and 99, both healthy and lucid until the very end.
We'll see if the streak continues.
 
InN fact, I was wondering where you were. I was like 'Where is Chewie ?'

100 ? (Whistle. ...)

My Aunt Edna Whaley is 99. Lives in Long Island. Still kicking around apparently.
 
Welcome back, Mr. Kotter!

God willing, my great grandmother will be 106 in August. Her mind is still very sharp. She was an English teacher and speaks proper grammar as she recalls stories that happened to her 100 years ago very vividly and with great attention to detail.

She can't see very well and is a bit hunched over from osteoporosis, but she lives in a house by herself (near relatives).
 
Terry_Lasater said:
God willing, my great grandmother will be 106 in August. Her mind is still very sharp. She was an English teacher and speaks proper grammar as she recalls stories that happened to her 100 years ago very vividly and with great attention to detail.
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WOW 106.
That's good to hear.
Everytime we've left Argentina for the past 20 years or so I always fear it's the last time I'll see my grandfather...yet he keeps surprising all of us. Hopefully I'll be able to go to his 106th birthday party in a few years.

If you haven't done it yet I would HIGHLY recommend recording as many of those stories as you can. There's nothing like hearing them from the source.

One of my favorite projects I've ever done was a recording of my grandfather a few years ago (he was 93 at the time). I only recorded audio because he hates being on camera... I basicallly interviewed him over a series of days, asking him all about his life from what it was like growing up at the start of the 20th century to what he thinks the world will be like for my grandchildren, etc. It was invaluable stuff...for my family at least.

Now my grandkids will someday be able to listen to my granfather in his own voice, telling his life story. Of course, that means they'll have to speak spanish as well...but I guess that's up to me.
 
Geeze, i think the oldest person in my family is around 80. 106 (and for that mattter, 100) is amazing. That must be a very cool juncture in life. Around 100 you get to talk about an entire century you lived in--a club most people don't get to join, sadly.

I missed the wookie, as well.
 
Now that you mention it, it has been less furry around here. :crybaby:

I had a great grandmother lived to 105 or so. My two grandfathers lived into the mid 90's.

:thumbsup:
 
Welcome back!

100 years old?! That's awesome! My great-grandfather lived to be 95... that's the oldest person I've ever known.
 
My wife's Grandmother kept house--did laundry, sewed, cooked, repaired stuff, went crabbing--until she was about 98. She died at a hundred years old, and her two older sisters were at the funeral.

My kids have half a chance!
 
lpcvideo1 said:
her two older sisters were at the funeral.
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That is AWESOME!
I love hearing things like that.

My grandfather has been having circulation problems in his legs recently.
So because of that he'll suddenly lose feeling in one of his legs.
He's finally decided he should probably be in a wheelchair, at 99 years and 10 months old.

When he told me about it he said, "The only annoying thing is I'm going to have to be in this wheelchair for the rest of my life."

Keep in mind this is a man who is now 100 years old...talking about the 'rest of his life.'
It's that kind of spirit that's kept him going.
 
Luis Caffesse said:
If you haven't done it yet I would HIGHLY recommend recording as many of those stories as you can. There's nothing like hearing them from the source.

One of my favorite projects I've ever done was a recording of my grandfather a few years ago (he was 93 at the time). I only recorded audio because he hates being on camera... I basicallly interviewed him over a series of days, asking him all about his life from what it was like growing up at the start of the 20th century to what he thinks the world will be like for my grandchildren, etc. It was invaluable stuff...for my family at least.

Now my grandkids will someday be able to listen to my granfather in his own voice, telling his life story. Of course, that means they'll have to speak spanish as well...but I guess that's up to me.
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My wife and I are in the planning stages of doing this very thing. My family is so spread out and anti-social that it seems like the only time we get together is when someone dies ... so when my grandmother died a few weeks ago my wife was like "You know...." And the rest is, as they say, history. :)

None of my family speak Spanish though, so I hope that doesn't throw a kink in our plans. :undecided

Welcome back Luis. The forum wasn't the same without you.
 
Luis Caffesse said:
WOW 106.
If you haven't done it yet I would HIGHLY recommend recording as many of those stories as you can. There's nothing like hearing them from the source.
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I did an interview with her when she was 99 (just a few months before her 100th birthday). I added photos and video of her eldest son introducing the whole thing on camera. I made several VHS copies and gave them away to family members at my great grandmother's 100 birthday blowout.

I need to adapt it to DVD for safekeeping and future copies.

Ironically, one of her daughters (my grandmother) passed away last year at the age of 83 before I was able to record an interview with her. :(
 
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