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104-year-old woman sews masks for community

Posted at 9:13 AM, Apr 24, 2020
and last updated 2020-04-24 13:28:23-04

This 104-year-old woman spends her time making masks for her community impacted by COVID-19.

She lived through the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918, and now uses her machine from 1939 to sew the masks.

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The former nurse says the project is doing what her ancestors did -- taking care of one another.