Resident Evelyn Zehring is 103 years young. Mary Saito is 100. And on New Year's Day, Fukiko Murase will hit the 100-year mark. They are all residents at the Atherton care facility.
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Lillian Wong, who graduated from USC in the early '30s, is one of two residents at the facility who is 106 years old.
Do the math - if you add up all the centenarians at this facility, you have 1,100 years of life experience. That's a lot of wisdom.
Jim Williams, a centenarian, shared some of that wisdom.
"Very simple. Just be nice to people," he said.
They were born at the end of one World War and lived through a second. Saito was one of 110,000 Japanese-Americans sent to an internment camp. That memory now, she says, is just a blip.
"I just think it had to be, 'que sera que sera,' whatever will be will be," she said.
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They don't fit a mold. Some say they are fueled by faith and family. Williams says he's self-driven.
"I been a loner a lot. I do it. Me," he said.
Murase's exercise regime might surprise you.
"Sat around most of the time," she said with a laugh.
At Atherton, it seems the best medicine is laughter and song.