Anna Dixon’s remarkable long life continues.
She recently celebrated her 105th birthday. And at Tuesday’s Henderson City Commission meeting a proclamation was read in her honor, and Mayor Brad Staton proclaimed Feb. 23—her birthday—as “Anna Dixon Day.”
Dixon lives at Redbanks Regency Apartments where the spry 105-year-old takes part in exercise classes, plays the piano and entertains her fellow apartment dwellers with her spunk, according to employees there.
At Tuesday’s meeting, the gathered group of community members and city employees sang “Happy Birthday” to her.
Afterwards, Ms. Anna spoke to the crowd.
“I would like to thank all of you for coming by to see an old lady that’s 105 years old,” she said. “How she got there, I’ll never know.”
According to a past Hendersonian article about Dixon when she turned 103, she grew up on a Corydon farm in a family of 10 children. There she learned how to garden, sew and can.
“My mother canned anything you can put in a jar,” she said, noting that she still cans things like jams and jellies.
When World War II began, she moved to Chicago where she continued to live, and she worked in hospital administration for many years. She moved back to Corydon in 1973 to help care for elder relatives, and worked at Earle C. Clements Job Corps Center.
She got married for the first time at age 50. She’d first known George Dixon as a school classmate, and they were married for 30 years until he died in 2008.
“I have seen a lot of change,” Dixon said, offering some advice for living a good and productive life.
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