From Grand Rapids to Metro Detroit and back again ...

A Wilton, Iowa, family is planning a card shower for Eleanor Pasvogel’s 105th birthday. According to her great-niece, Eleanor still lives at home, and her small family want to make sure she has a ...

Grinnell College is gearing up to celebrate one of its most historic alumna ahead of her 111th birthday. Edith Renfrow Smith was the first African American alumna from ...

A Michigan bear roamed the woods for two years with an awful lid on his neck. Not anymore. Bear caged for 4 years makes first ...

Dear Eric: How long do you keep greeting cards like birthday, congratulations, holidays, thank you, and so on? I understand keeping those with sentimental value, but I tend to keep all of them. My ...

Dear Eric: How long do you keep greeting cards like birthday, congratulations, holidays, thank you, and so on?I understand keeping those with sentimental value, but I tend to keep all of them. My ...

Dear Eric: How long do you keep greeting cards like birthday, congratulations, holidays, thank you, and so on? I understand keeping those with sentimental value, but I tend to keep all of them.

The other teen was Mary Kroger, now 94. For the past 81 years, DeReamer and Kroger have been sending the same birthday card back and forth to each other on their birthdays, signing their names and ...

Pettigrew wanted 100 cards in time for his 100th birthday on April 11. In just a matter of weeks, he received more than 1,700. At the most recent count, Gaston Pettigrew recieved over 1,700 cards ...

Two women have sent each other the same weathered birthday card for 81 years “The joke is that neither one of us knows who started the card,” said Mary Kroger, 94. April 10, 2025.

Decades later, on her 95th birthday, that very same card was once again delivered to her door. For the past 80 years, the two friends have exchanged the same card annually, ...

Pat DeReamer and Mary Wheaton-Kroger exchange the same card every year to celebrate each other's birthday — a tradition they've kept for the past 81 years.