Longevity in Big Pine

There must be something in the waters of Big Pine or it’s the small-town lifestyle. Over 180 people have reached the comfortable age of 90 or more in Crocker Cemetery!  Not surprisingly there are 147 females and only 33 males. 

As of November 2024:

Our Golden Girls (Centagenarians)

• Clarice Tate Uhlmeyer 2001
  104

• Lillian Devine Robinson 2005
  104

• Cleo Winner Miles-Vance 2015
  104

• Lucille King Redmond 2021
  103

• Minnie Piper 1985
  102

• Ethel McNett Stewart 1999
  102

• Gina Olsen Anderson 1975
  101

• Mary Valone Olivero 1998
  101

Those over 90 (Nonagenarians)

Aged 99

• Jewel Ming 2000

Aged 98

• Ruth Fisher Bedell 1996

• Lois Smith Broady 2014

• Bernadine Richardson Connor 2024

• Antone Cunha 1918

• Lena Piper 2005

• Alliene Crocker Hunnewell 2006

• Weldon Bartels 2011

Aged 97

• Evelyn Jones Shedd 1982

• Howard Stilwell 1993

• Doris Bright Ferber 2010

• Doris McDevitt Link 2015

Aged 96

• Ellen Clotts White 1915

• Melba Hinz Reger 2014

• Luise Keller Poeppel 2000

• Bertha Hutton Lyman 2001

• Maratina Ferrari Orihuela 2009

Aged 95

• Vivienne Chance Bice Welch 2019

• Sarah Steel Davis 1979

• Estelle Rossi Fansler 1996

• Doris Crowe Wade 1996

• Carrie Moore Gregg 1948

• Helen Wilkens Harris 2001

• Tom G. Harrison 2023

• Mercie Coe 1973

• Alice Jones Tate 1978

• Esther Robinson Willson 1990

• Kenneth Cline 1993

• Harriett Hogle Swanson 1995

• Inga Anderson Stewart 2000

• Maynard Rossi 2005

• James McFarlane 2007

• Geneva Thomas Spriggs 2015

• Enos Muniz 2019

• Louise Peters 2021

Aged 94

• Caroline Skilton Baker 1977

• Mary Hogg Crawford 1973

• Samuel Lindsay 1965

• Sarah Jennings Lee 1971

• Edward Polloreno 1991

• Virginia Rossi Harwood 2007

• June Imus Rossi 2008

• Marie Pellissier Wiles 2016

• Cinthia Pettis 2023

Aged 93

• Lucille Warfield Hall 2021

• Charles Home 1985

• Mary Stewart Tracy 1923

• Elton Baker 1968

• Mary Huffman Shrum 1998

• Albert Wilson 2010

• Melvin Smith 2012

• Iris Rosevear Scribner 2014

• Ardith Post Morse 2015

Aged 92

• George Hitchborn 2001

• Theresa Hogue 1981

• Henry Utter 1931

• Mary Kenney McMurry 1964

• Clarence Howe 1977

• Emma Frenchey Blake 1981

• Kenneth Morse 2008

• Harold Pettis 2013

Aged 91

• George Drummond 2012

• Virginia Scott Howe 1997

• Leah Hotaling Hinds 1972

• John Moulos 1976

• Harry Snyder 1976

• Katherine Bartels Steward 1978

• Benjamin Wade 1980

• Gertrude MacLeod DeFreese 1986

• Elsie Reinhardt Riedel 1986

• Ida Westervelt Stewart 1986

• Ellen Rena Bedell Pellissier 1993

• Bernice Curtis Morris 1996

• Kenneth Steward 2004

• Shirley Richardson Norway 2005

• Malby Ober Lapham 2008

• Harry Smith 2014

• Shirley Bacon Davis 2015

• Robert Cox 2015

• Ralph Connor 2016

• William Wright 2018

• Joseph MacLeod 2019

Aged 90

• Gertrude Ahrens Cooper 2011

• Helen Montrose Crocker 2001

• Robert Harvey Jr. 2016

• Harriet Hall 1942

• George Warren 1963

• George McAfee 1963

• Samuel McMurry 1964

• Ida Hall Crocker 1966

• Emma Pohl Hart 1966

• Joseph Steward 1968

• Katherine Bruce Myers 1968

• Alfred Slusser 1977

• Seba Bower Winesett 1982

• Lawrence Swanson 1984

• Edna Uhlmeyer Allen 1987

• Ola Maupin Smith 1989

• Dorothy Roupetz Johnson 1992

• Hazel Jordan Gessner 1995

• Kathleen Zinn Sosebee 2011

• Wayne DeWees 2016

• Flora Bennett Montgomery 2017

• George Einboden 2020

• Delores Collins Miller 2020

• Donna Mattingly Ives 2022

• George Borlace 2024