Do you think you’ll live to be 100 years old? Frances Kompus, a woman from Virginia, became 100 and celebrated with her older sisters. Yes, OLDER sisters. And this made the occasion even more memorable for her as a result.
However, the centenarian was not alone in her one-hundredth birthday. She also celebrated it with her sisters Julia Kopriva who is 104, and Lucy Pochop who is 102. Since they were children living on farms in Kansas in the early 1900s, the relationship between Kompus and his three grandmothers has evolved a lot. Florian William Holub was born in 1917 while Frances Rose Chleborad Holub gave birth to Lucy Pochop in 1919 and Julia Kopriva in 1920.
“It was good on the farm. I had a few geese to play with and even had some roosters I made pets.” Kompus told USA Today. Back then, females didn’t usually wear pants, so the girls worked on the farm in dresses. According to Pochop, “I just remember how we used to walk to school. It was about a mile and three-quarters. It was a long walk.”
Kompus continued, “We’d cross the pasture, we would walk, and then on the way back, we would stop at the creek and catch frogs, put them in our pockets.” Kopriva stated about their farm, “What I remember well is my father didn’t have modern tractors. We took gas, gasoline out in the field in five-gallon buckets.