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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Happy 100th Birthday to Virginia Plummer!

Today is Virginia Plummer's 100th birthday! Happy birthday to Virginia from West Roxbury Patch!

  West Roxbury resident Virginia Plummer turned 100-years-old today -  May 24, 2012. Happy birthday, Virginia! Her good friend Lorraine Emanuel wrote about Plummer, "She is a talented musician and a graduate of the University of Southern Maine where she majored in music. At age 30, she moved with her husband, Dr. A. Elmore Plummer to Boston for him to attend seminary at Andover Newton Theological School. He died in 1978. She was a teacher in Maine, but when she came to Boston she was not allowed to teach. Boston did not employ married teachers at that time."    Read about how caring Plummer is and was to Lorraine Emanuel. Said Emanuel, "In 2007, when Virginia found out I was pregnant, she gave me my first baby gifts. I will forever …

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Agnes Allieri Celebrates 100th Birthday in West Roxbury

40-year West Roxbury resident turned a century young on August 20.

West Roxbury's Agnes Allieri turned 100 years young on August 20. Allieri, a 40-year resident of West Roxbury, was joined by two young Boston City Councilors, Matt O'Malley, and John Connolly, as well as Ann Cushing, of state Sen. Mike Rush's office, at her West Roxbury home. Ethos presented Allieri with a cake, too! Cushing presented Allieri with a resolution recognizing her 100th birthday from the Statehouse, and the councilors provided her with a City resolution honoring her 100th birthday.

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