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Ervin “Erv” G. Yoas, a World War II veteran and retired Monroe jewelry business owner, died Saturday on his 109th birthday.

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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...

105-year-old Michigan woman has lived through two pandemics and keeps on going Updated Mar 05, 2021; Facebook Share MONROE, MI — Marion Yoas has survived two global pandemics in her 105 years and has no plans of missing out on whatever comes next. Yoas, who was a young child then, lived through the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic that killed about 50 million people worldwide, 675,000 of them in the U.S. And this week, from a rocking chair in the living room of her home in Newport, north of Monroe, she said she’s been toughing out the current COVID-19 pandemic, just like everyone else she...