WELLINGTON – Lee Hoodlived104years,5months and 30 days. 38,169 days. 916, 056 hours. 3,297,801,600 seconds.
Born in Tatum, N.M. on Aug. 17, 1919, Lee grew up with six siblings. She graduated high school in Tatum in 1937. She married Buford in 1939 at 19 years old. Her son, Bruce, was born in 1940. Her daughter, Loretta, was born in 1942. Her daughter, Sondra, was born in 1944. She had eight grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and 16 great-great-grandchildren.
Only 0.0118% of the population live to be 100 years old! Let’s take a look at her life. There were 19 presidents, six still living and 13 deceased: Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman, Calvin Coolidge, Warren Harding, Woodrow Wilson. Nine of those presidents (past and present) were Democrat, and 10 were Republican.
