This 105-year old Michigan woman who's survived 2 pandemics has wise words to share
This 105-year old Michigan woman who’s survived 2 pandemics has wise words to share Updated Mar 07, 2021; NEWPORT, MICH. – Marion Yoas has seen a lot in her 105 years. After receiving her second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, March 5, the pandemic is “just another thing,” she said. The resident of Newport, north of Monroe, born Marion Naomi Calkins on Sept. 9, 1915, has spent her whole life in that corner of southeast Michigan. She was born in Carleton, grew up in South Rockwood and moved to Newport with her husband, Raymond Yoas, in 1935. She’s lived there independently e...