“How much were soybeans in the early 1900s, Dad?” asked his daughter Vida.
“Three dollars for a 100-pound sack,” replied Leon Wadsworth.
Wadsworth, now 103, was honored as part of a recent Father’s Day celebration at the Gladstone Park Adventist Church, south of Portland, Ore. His daughter-interviewer, Vida Beaulieu, is 71 years old.
“How many centuries have you lived in?” she asked him, continuing the interview.
“I was born in 1899, so I have lived in three centuries,” he replied.
“And to what do you attribute your longevity?”
“Fresh air, sunshine, a vegetarian diet, and walking four to five miles a day,” he replied. “Today I still do my own shopping—like at Fred Meyer’s.”
Both of his daughters, Irma Schulden and Beaulieu, remember their father as a good disciplinarian and family man. He has kept a daily diary since he was a young man.
Wadsworth now lives alone at Sumerset Village, a retirement home in Gladstone. He also has two sons, eight grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren. •
Pastor Paul Johnson, Leon Wadsworth, Irma Schulden and Vida Beaulieu.
