Lillie Cunningham recently celebrated her 110th birthday. She has lived through two pandemics and two world wars and is looking forward to voting in November's presidential election.
toggle captionShe may be one of the world's oldest people. But age is just a number to Lillie Cunningham.At 110 years old, Cunningham is full of life, so much so that she recently enjoyed a weekend of birthday celebrations surrounded by her community, family and friends.
Cunningham recalls growing up on a farm and going to church. She has outlived her four siblings — as well as her husband — and has more than 100 nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. She credits God for keeping her safe through many events over the last century, including two pandemics — influenza in 1918 and COVID-19 — and two world wars. A member of Rock Primitive Baptist Church in Florence, she attends church every Sunday and reads her Bible every night and every morning.I just always had faith and trust in God that he was going to carry us through regardless of what other people said," Cunningham says.
Lillie Cunningham and her great-nephew Rickie Cole at her home on Sunday."She is determined," Cole says. She doesn't need a walker to get around and refuses to use a cane."She stayed with my mother and complained about how she don't need to be in my mama's house — she need to be at home taking care of herself," he says."It was more of a challenge to keep her at my mother's house than the surgery itself.
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