One week before her 103rd birthday, Houstonian Clarence Freeman tells ABC13 about the major events she's witnessed within the century.
Houstonian and centenarian, 102-year-old Clarice Freeman, is among the nation's small population of seniors who live to be 100 years old.It's a very exclusive group of people - those who have lived to be at least 100 years old. In fact, it's one of the fastest-growing segments of the population in the nation, according to the Pew Research Center. ButFirst, genetics plays a big role. If your parents and grandparents lived to a ripe old age, your chances of living longer go up, too.
She's packed a lot of life in that century-plus. Raised in Illinois, she went to college and taught before meeting her husband, the late minister Dr. Thomas Freeman. He became a legendary debate coach at Texas Southern University. After marrying, they moved from Virginia to segregated Texas in 1953. "When I came to Houston, I felt like I stood still for about 25 years before Houston caught up," she said when asked what it was like moving to the Bayou City during the 1950s."My grandmother, whom I got to know very well, was born a slave," she said.
After witnessing so many monumental changes in her long lifetime, she told ABC13 one of the most amazing events to her was the election of the nation's first Black president, Barack Obama.Freeman has spent most of her life involved with the arts, raising three children, and four grandchildren. She said she continued to drive until she was nearly 100 years old, and wore heels even longer than that."I was probably about 80 or 90 at the time," Freeman said.
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