Where do they live? Florida of course.
Mayor Dorothy Geeben doesn't drink.Happy birthday Dorothy. Have a grand time on Monday.And maybe that's her secret.
On Monday, the woman believed to be the oldest mayor in the country turns 100, though Geeben said during an early birthday party Friday she feels "not a bit" older than she did last year.
"I never dreamed of such a thing," she said of making it to her centennial.
Geeben shrugged when asked her secrets to longevity.
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Guy Lombardi tunes filled the town's Hoke Hall Friday as Geeben's friends and neighbors filed past a table full of flowers, confetti and well wishes from the likes of President George W. Bush and Governor Charlie Crist.
Many in this mobile-home village for residents 55 and older complained of failing eyesight as they leaned in to kiss Geeben and wish her another 100 years.
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Geeben has outlived two siblings and buried two husbands. After moving to Ocean Breeze in 1952, she joined the town's council in 1960. Geeben became mayor in 2001 after the death of Mayor Ruth Hoke, who owned the park on the Indian River near Jensen Beach and whose father-in-law, Harry Hoke, incorporated the former fishing camp as a town in 1938.
Geeben confesses her duties as mayor of the town of fewer than 1,000 residents are mostly ceremonial, such as signing documents and checks. She presides over the town council's monthly meetings but doesn't vote.
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