Ethel has had the privilege of seeing many changes in her lifetime – from horse and buggy to flying through space. She has always taken life as it comes. She is very devoted to her family, and loves having company and getting cards.
Ethel Rounds celebrates 100th Birthday
April 21, 2010
Santa Paula News
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Ethel Rounds is now 100 years old. She was born in Bentonville, Arkansas on April 15, 1910 to Martin and Olive Smith, the youngest of four children; all of her siblings are deceased.
However, she is fulfilling a legacy of living a long life – her brothers lived to their 90s. She is the only one of the siblings to be 100 years old.
Ethel’s family moved to Santa Paula when she was 9 years old, in 1919. She now resides in the Victoria Care Center in Ventura. She celebrated there with the entire facility on Thursday, April 15 with a musical program in the morning, and then she celebrated with her family for dinner.
Family who were present included son and daughter-in-law Terry and Joyce Rounds, grandson and granddaughter-in-law John and Shelley Rounds and great-granddaughter Ace Rounds, granddaughter Leticia Talley and grandson-in-law Tom, great-granddaughters Jessica and Bobbie Talley, niece Valene Williams, nephew Gene Moser and wife Nancy, grandniece Sharon Tubbs and husband Paul, great-grandniece Brenna Tubbs, and great-grandnephews Patrick Tubbs and James Burgett. Also attending was friend Nancy Brogan.
