Lucile (Butts) Ozmun (right) celebrated her 100th birthday with two "window visit" parties on Sunday and Monday (her actual birthday.) She lives at Hilltop Lodge but spent most of her life in Jewell County.
Lucile Butts Ozmun celebrated her 100th birthday with two-days of celebration. One on Sunday afternoon, and one on the afternoon of her actual birthday, Monday, Nov. 16. Both were COVID-style "window visits" at Hilltop Lodge in Beloit.
Partiers had a tent, festooned with balloons, to stand and sit in as they visited with Lucile. Hilltop has a room arranged for "window visits." At Hilltop Lodge, a microphone set up on the inside and outside allows communication though a window separates the visitors.
Though some things were different from all of her other 99 birthdays, some things were the same. Party whistles and the singing of Happy Birthday brought a smile to the face of the honoree. Her son, Ralph Ozmun, and his wife Lulu, were the organizers of the two events.
Lucile was born during the world-wide Spanish Flu pandemic and observed her birthday during the world-wide COVID-19 pandemic. During her life-time she lived through the Dirty Thirties, saw the rise and fall of Hitler during the World War II years, the beginning and end of the Cold War, and a man walk on the moon. She saw farming with horses and mules and farming with bemouth four-wheel drive tractors. Quite a span of changes during her 100 years – including a party through a glass window.
Several came from a distance to bring special greetings. Larry and Lisa Divel came from Abilene; Ken Thompson from Oklahoma; Ed and Linda Perdue from Albuquerque, N.M.; and Ralph and Lulu Ozmun from Tennessee. A special guest was June Abram Butts, Lucile's sister-in-law who is also a resident of Hilltop Lodge.
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