We caught up with Mary at her birthday lunch held at Fortunes at Batavia Downs on Wednesday afternoon.
Mary says her secret to getting to 95 is no smoking or drinking and have fun in life.
Mary moved to the Perry area in Wyoming County from Pennsylvania when she was a baby. She married her husband James Tuttle Sr. in 1945, he was a fighter pilot and served with the Air Force during WW II.
After the war, Mary’s husband worked at GLF/Agway and then sold insurance before retiring. He was an avid fly fisherman, says his daughter Lynn.
Mary says during the war she served as an Air Raid Warden in Perry, her shift was midnight to 4am. After the war, she worked in Rochester in banking and at a car dealership. She has two children, Lynn Heineman, 72, of Leicester and James Tuttle Jr. of Corfu, who is a retired City of Batavia Police Officer.
This past year she has been living at the Jerome Senior Apartments on Bank street. She enjoys knitting, quilting and watches a lot of TV and is learning to play cribbage.
Today she says she is really looking forward to her daughter in laws chocolate pie.
Mary’s celebration at Fortunes restaurant at the Downs was planned by Office for the Aging Director Ruth Spink and Barbara Matarazzo/clerk/typist at the Office for the Aging.
Madeline Harding, a friend of Mary’s through her quilting class, was remembered at the birthday lunch as she passed away a few weeks ago. She was scheduled to celebrate her 91st birthday with Mary.
