102 and Counting

Happy birthday to West Ashley resident Lucy S. Wall, who turned 102 years old on Monday, March 17^th, St. Patrick’s Day.
Wall was born in 1912 in Belton, S.C., and her first memory was being 2 years old, and walking barefoot across wood-plank floors, and her uncle picking her up and warming her tootsies by the fire.
A lot of historic events have occurred on her birthday, including Julius Caesar defeating Pompey the younger at the Battle of Munda in 45 B.C.
“I’m pretty sure I wasn’t there, but these day I feel like I might have been,” said Wall, who has enjoyed amazing luck health-wise, and still lives independently in her home off Magnolia Road.
A retiree from the fashions department at Kerrison’s downtown, she remembers on her 30^th birthday, in 1942, U.S. Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur becoming supreme commander of Allied forces, but not the founding of Campfire Girls on the date of her birth.
“I was a Girl Scout leader,” she says, just back from lunch on Monday with family, the phone ringing off the hook with well-wishers.