Charlotte Cora James Pomeroy, Wash.

Charlotte Cora (Clark) James, Pomeroy, is 100 years old today. Born Dec. 18, 1895, in Springfield, Ore., she has lived in the Northwest for 95 years, and at the Memory Manor Nursing Home for the past 10 years.

In 1900, when she was 5, she and her family traveled by covered wagon to homestead in Washington state.

She and Earnest “Grover” James married in 1910, and in the mid-‘40s, they moved to Spokane from a farm in Orient, Wash. He died in 1950.

She was a housewife, but after her husband’s death, she worked at Casey’s Restaurant and the Spokane Country Club before retiring in the 1960s.

The couple had seven children: Dayl W. James, Vida Blackstone, Zella Johnson, Leola Grace and Elaine Emmel, all of Spokane; Brainard “B.W.” W. James, Enterprise, Ore.; and Zenna Veda, who died in infancy.

Mrs. James has 10 grandchildren and three deceased grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren and 19 great-great-grandchildren.

When asked about living to be 100, she said, “I came from a family tree of longevity, hard work (farm life), ate lots of cream, eggs (2 per day), bacon and butter. I never drank or smoked, either.”

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