From the Boston Globe:
"These days, Irene Davey lives alone in her house in Attleboro, cooking for herself and family members who stop by to bring her groceries and to taste her fabled chicken soup. She solves a crossword puzzle each day, and when friends come over, they play Scrabble and cribbage.
She says she is in perfect health. Her daughter, Patty, said she "doesn't look a day older than 75." Her son, Martin, calls her every morning, "and if he doesn't call me by 8:45 I'm having a nervous breakdown," Davey said. "I worry that there's something wrong with him."
After Harold died, Davey never remarried. "To tell you the truth, it gets lonely," she told her friends yesterday. Moments later, she was leaning against the shoulder of state Senator Scott P. Brown, one of the many officials who took turns sitting next to her in the living room of the senior center.
"I can't propose to you, because I'm married," said Brown.
"That's OK," she told Brown, who is 48 years old, after a brief pause. "You're too old for me."
Full article at http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/01/26/a_birthday_one_century_in_the_making/
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