Elizebeth Francis, a Texas woman, celebrated her 114th birthday on July 25, calling it a “blessing” to have lived so long, as she told Houston’s KTRK, an ABC news affiliate.
Francis is recognized as the oldest person alive in Texas and the second-oldest in the country.
Her 68-year-old granddaughter shared that Francis “always grew her vegetables in the backyard” and rarely visited fast-food restaurants like Chick-fil-A.
“Whenever you went to her house, I don’t care what day of the week, she was cooking. So, I just think that had a lot to do with it, too. Just how she took care of her body and things like that,” Harrison told KTRK.
Health is indeed wealth, and achieving centenarian status is a milestone only .027% of the country can claim.
Francis has witnessed the births and untimely deaths of significant historical figures, from Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X to Rosa Parks, who was born in 1913.
According to a researcher interviewed by the outlet, Francis is also the 7th oldest person in the world.
Francis doesn’t drink or smoke, but she says she eats “everything.”
We’ll have what she’s having!