100-year-old woman sees the ocean for the first time (10 Photos)
-
1
-
Meet Ruby Holt.
Ruby is a 100-year-young Tennessee native who spent her entire life in service of others.
-
2
-
She raised four children while working in a shirt factory and picking cotton. She always wanted to travel but never had the money or time.
-
3
-
She mentioned off hand to a nurse at her care facility that she had never been to the ocean. In fact she had only ever left Tennessee once in her life.
-
4
-
Ruby, who turns 101 in December, was secretly submitted to the Wish of a Lifetime foundation by the staff.
-
5
-
She was selected by the foundation, and brought to the Perdido Beach Resort in the Gulf of Mexico.
-
6
-
“I’ve heard people talk about it and how wonderful it was and wanted to see it, but I never had the opportunity to do so,”
-
7
-
When asked how the water felt as she felt it for the first time she said “It’s cold!”
-
8
-
9
-
“We don’t have nothing like this in Giles County [Tennessee]”
-
10
-
Happy Birthday Ruby.