WILKES-BARRE TOWNSHIP, PA (WTVD) -- Over the weekend, Pennsylvania woman Ruth Heiser, of Hazleton, celebrated her 106th birthday.
She shares a birth-year with Rosa Parks, Jesse Owens, and Richard Nixon; she lived through the tenure of 18 U.S. presidents, beginning with Woodrow Wilson in 1913.
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Family and friends celebrated the special day with Heiser at Royal House Buffet, an Asian restaurant near Wilkes-Barre. And instead of piling 106 candles on the cake, Heiser only had to blow out six. Because your age starts over every century, right?
Earlier this year, a woman in New York celebrated her 114th birthday. Experts say she may be the oldest person living in the United States.