Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1916 — SHE’D RATHER BE IN HEAVEN [ARTICLE]

SHE’D RATHER BE IN HEAVEN

Woman, Age 100 Years, Prefer* to Be With Chums of Girlhood. St. Louis, Mo.—Mrs. Marie Relne Tschaen Fusz celebrated her one 'hundredth birthday here by an after dinner speech to fifty of her descendants and near relatives. “I know it must have been an evidence of divine grace to have been per mltted to live to such an age,” said Mrs. Fusz. “However, I feel that 1 would really prefer to be in heaven, for all the friends of my girlhood and youna womanhood days are there.”