{"id":3025,"date":"2026-05-09T14:01:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=3025"},"modified":"2026-05-09T14:01:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:01:50","slug":"for-mothers-day-weekend-we-turn-to-moms-at-least-100-years-old-for-their-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=3025","title":{"rendered":"For Mother\u2019s Day weekend, we turn to moms at least 100 years old for their wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As jobs go, motherhood can seem at odds with itself; too relentless to be easy but too satisfying to quit.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s also endless. The core Mom skills \u2013 listening, caring, advising; maybe a little nagging, maybe shutting up \u2013 never go away. They\u2019re still needed long after a kid is out of diapers, done with school, out of the house, employed, married, unmarried, unemployed, re-employed, remarried, rehabilitated, whatever. Mom skills are even needed after the kid has their own kids, or their own grandkids.<\/p>\n

Once a mother, always a mother.<\/p>\n

And even if time and age eventually force a realignment, turning the kid into a caretaker and the mother into a caretakee, the shift is merely physical. The bedrock of the relationship \u2013 Mom\u2019s gloriously outlandish love for her children \u2013 still flows in the same direction.<\/p>\n

All of which explains why this Mother\u2019s Day, we\u2019re talking with people who understand the complex, contradictory job better than anybody: mothers who\u2019ve hit 100.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not as weird as it sounds. At this moment, there are more living centenarians who are mothers than at any time in human history. And the pool is growing fast. If current demographic projections pan out, there\u2019s a decent chance that you, too, could someday be a mother (or a father) and 100 years old or older. By grilling the oldest of all moms for some insight about a job they\u2019ve done for decades, we\u2019re simply tapping an expanding resource.<\/p>\n

So, pay attention. Here\u2019s what a few 100-something mothers have to say about their favorite lifetime appointment.<\/p>\n

\u2018Never changes\u2019<\/h4>\n

Recent news that one of her sons had fallen off his bike sent Mitsuye Yamada into a bit of a panic.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat happened?\u201d she asked, via a Zoom call, in a voice that implied the next questions might be about driver\u2019s license and proof of insurance.<\/p>\n

When her son and his wife described the fall, and held up a dented bike helmet to illustrate how he\u2019d actually gotten lucky, Mitsuye\u2019s panic grew. (Weeks later, she shook her head at the memory of the slightly misshapen plastic. \u201cThat looked pretty bad.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Then, after she learned that doctors wanted to drill a hole in her son\u2019s head to resolve a small brain bleed \u2013 and that he would be hospitalized for a few days to see if his brain would expand in a way that might change or end his life \u2013 Mitsuye\u2019s panic flipped into something more primal; more mom-like.<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t cry as she took it all in, but she also couldn\u2019t say a word.<\/p>\n

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The fact that the son in question is 67 and Mitsuye is 102 did exactly nothing to diminish her concern.<\/p>\n

Motherhood, she suggested later, might be more powerful than time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt never changes. That feeling of being a mom doesn\u2019t ever go away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which is not to say there haven\u2019t been tweaks.<\/p>\n

When Mitsuye and her late husband Yosh raised their four children, from the early 1950s through the late 1970s, mostly in Sierra Madre and Irvine, the era of free-range childhood was in full bloom. Kids could play all day and much of the night, anywhere, without a lot of \u2013 or any \u2013 adult supervision.<\/p>\n

At the Yamada house, TV access was regulated and studying was emphasized, but free play was routine. Often, the oldest of the four kids, a girl, was supposed to keep an eye on two younger brothers. Later, when the oldest hit her mid-teens and eventually went off to college, the two boys were nudged into leadership roles of their own and nominally put in charge of the youngest kid, a sister.<\/p>\n

Mitsuye, working full-time as a professor of English and creative writing at Cypress College, didn\u2019t shirk her duties as much as delegate them, taking something of a chief executive\u2019s approach to parenting.<\/p>\n

Years later, she had a front-row seat for a very different version of child-rearing.<\/p>\n

After her children grew into adults, she shared the Irvine house with her youngest daughter and one of her favorite sons-in-law (full disclosure, he\u2019s one of this article\u2019s authors) while they raised two children, now ages 31 and 26. It was the mid-1990s through about 2018, a time when free-range childhood had been supplanted by something closer to police-state parenting.<\/p>\n

For kids of the era, adults were Orwellian and everywhere. The tone was set when toddlers recreated under the banner of adult-supervised \u201cplay dates,\u201d and, after that, adult eyeballs were trained on nearly every child and teen activity. T-ball games and T-ball practices; dance recitals and dance classes; soccer matches and soccer tournaments and four nights a week of soccer practices; debates, mock trials, grad nights \u2013 no moment of youth went unwitnessed by at least one parent. (It\u2019s no wonder that 21st-century kids have leaned so hard into online living, where parents can be avoided or even briefly, blissfully, forgotten.)<\/p>\n

For Mitsuye, all that parenting energy was bewildering and, at times, amusing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat would she have to say?\u201d Mitsuye once asked after hearing a parent-to-parent debate about whether a 10-year-old should carry a walkie-talkie while playing with other kids in a park roughly 150 yards from the front door.<\/p>\n

Recently, when asked if one style of parenting was better than the other, the woman who spent part of her teens incarcerated in a camp for Japanese Americans suggested the style question missed something more important.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe kids didn\u2019t know any different, so it didn\u2019t matter to them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd\u2026 parents always feel the same about their kids, I think,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey love them. That\u2019s what matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rosie the mother<\/h4>\n

Jennifer McMullen, 101, is mother to six sons, three of whom reached adulthood and three who were lost within days of their births, between 1946 to 1949.<\/p>\n

By then, McMullen had already made history. She\u2019d worked as a Rosie the Riveter, building top-secret airplanes during World War II at the Lockheed Aircraft plant in Burbank. At war\u2019s end, she met and married Mel McMullen, a decorated Army veteran, and in 1950 the couple settled in Whittier.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where they raised their boys, Tim, Tucker and Kevin. She worked outside of the house, too, first at her son\u2019s schools and later as an analyst for the School of Business and Public Administration at Cal State San Bernardino.<\/p>\n

The McMullens will celebrate their 80th wedding anniversary next month in New Orleans. At that time, Jennifer also be honored with an American Spirit Award from the National World War II Museum.<\/p>\n

For all of those accomplishments and 101 years of wisdom, she shies away from giving anybody tips on how to raise kids.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh dear, I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m good at giving advice as a mother,\u201d she said, pressing a finger to her lips in thought.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut perhaps I was very fortunate to have very good parents.\u201d<\/p>\n

She still remembers her highway worker and farmer father and homemaker mother, and her siblings, and their Ohio home.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s old enough that she went to school by horse and buggy. She\u2019s also old enough that she worked, as a kid, in a time when child labor wasn\u2019t at all unusual. She and her siblings would help their mother sell small fruit pies for a nickel each, knocking on doors to sell butter, eggs and berries.<\/p>\n

Life was sometimes hard, and money was always precious.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we never went hungry,\u201d Jennifer remembers. \u201cAnd we loved and looked after one another.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was this \u201ccan-do\u201d attitude, she said, that fueled her early days as a mom in the 1950s. The family lived in a home on Rosehedge Drive in Whittier, where her mother-in-law and Aunt Pearl were nearby to help.<\/p>\n

She is quick to point out that if their family life was ideal, it wasn\u2019t because she wielded any secret parenting superpower.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember I tried breastfeeding and I couldn\u2019t do it. So we had formula all the way,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we never had a crazy house. I don\u2019t think I ever recalled that it was hard. My boys were well-behaved kids. They made it easy on me.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd they had a good father, so that helped.\u201d<\/p>\n

She stayed home until her sons were older, and she and her husband threw themselves into family life.<\/p>\n

It is, they posit, still possible to do what they did back then \u2013 join and then lead the PTA, be a scout leader and den mother, spend summers on road trips, and teach children by example to do the right things and to help others.<\/p>\n

Paying attention to your children still yields results. Joining local groups such as the Rotary, League of Women Voters, the Woman\u2019s Club and symphony guilds shows them how to build community.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere was a lot of, \u2018Oh, I hope I don\u2019t have to tell your dad about this!\u2019 And that worked,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She still treasures the Mother\u2019s Day gifts her three sons have given her through the years, especially the ones from Tucker, who passed away in 2020.<\/p>\n

She doesn\u2019t fret that her four grandchildren have yet to give her and Mel great-grandchildren. She has no control over any of that, and that\u2019s OK.<\/p>\n

Her own parents taught her to treat the hard stuff of life as no big deal, and to celebrate all that\u2019s good like it was.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been pretty fortunate, finding a good man, being happy and having a good family,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Her eldest son, Tim, said all the good fortune landed on him and his brothers, having a mother like theirs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s a single superlative enough for my mom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Resilience<\/h4>\n

Hazel Spracklin, born 100 years ago in Linton, North Dakota, recalls a simple childhood. She lived on a farm, walked to school, sang with her family and found things to do to survive the cold winters.<\/p>\n

All were skills that she would impress upon her future, six-kid family.<\/p>\n

The Wildomar resident\u2019s late husband Robert\u2019s job involved a lot of travel, and the children recall moving frequently, attending as many as five different schools in one year. When they finally settled in sunnier California, in the 1960s, Hazel worked a variety of jobs \u2013 in nursing homes, restaurants, construction sites, even a bar \u2013 to help support the family.<\/p>\n

She also walked with the children to a local church.<\/p>\n

\u201cI liked raising a family on the road,\u201d she said. \u201cThey kept me busy and out of trouble. And I just tried to keep them under my thumb. Having them all so close together also really helped. \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI just love them all. And they love me.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said faith \u2013 she raised her children in a Christian tradition \u2013 was a big part of her parenting style.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best advice I can give is to teach (your kids) the right way to do things, and bring them up in church, and so they know God and follow his ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also said eating fresh is her health \u201csecret,\u201d and that when it comes to loving discipline, \u201cno means no.\u201d<\/p>\n

As she grew older, Hazel said, her faith in God helped her survive various medical issues, including lymphoma and multiple bouts of lung cancer.<\/p>\n

A look at some numbers suggests she also succeeded as a parent. She had six children, who today live all over the country. She also has eight grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, and eight great-great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I reached 100,\u201d she said. \u201cWell, it was pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Listen up<\/h4>\n

Maria \u201cMicki\u201d Gutman turned 104 in February.<\/p>\n

Long before that, she raised her two children, James and Cheryl, in Pacoima. That\u2019s also where she worked, as a housewife and at Sears, where she says she earned extra money for fun excursions.<\/p>\n

She recently offered a few thoughts on parenting:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rewards of being a mother are endless!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy daughter once asked me, when she was about 12, what is the hardest job I ever had. I told her it was being a parent. And she responded by asking \u2018Why, then, did I become a parent?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause,\u201d she explained, \u201cit was also the most rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Micki suggested her ears \u2013 and heart \u2013 have been keys to connecting with her kids.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the best thing I did as a mother was to always be willing to listen to them when they wanted to talk, no matter what they wanted to talk about. What they have expressed to me, and the relationships they now have with their own children, it still holds true.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keeping open communication, without judgment, is a lifetime responsibility, she added.<\/p>\n

Her family was, and is, close-knit. And at every family gathering, her relatives have made life, in Micki\u2019s word, \u201ceasy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think being a mom is different now than it was when I was raising children,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe outside circumstances change, but children\u2019s needs are the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

BFFs<\/h4>\n

Motherhood isn\u2019t about biology.<\/p>\n

Julia Blake, now 100, became a mother in 1970, at age 43, when she got a call telling her a 19-year-old woman was giving up her baby for adoption, and that she and her husband, Ernie Blake, could have him if they wanted. Julia said she and Ernie had been married since 1966, but hadn\u2019t been able to have a child on their own.<\/p>\n

That changed when she held Danny for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was so beautiful,\u201d she said, tears welling. \u201cHe had this beautiful red hair. And we were so happy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a blessing from God that I got him.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Julia, having family again felt like a second chance.<\/p>\n

She was born in Lima, Peru, and came to the United States at age 25. But by that time, both of her parents had died and a sister had moved away. It was, she says, the \u201cdarkest\u201d time of her life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to die when my mother died,\u201d she said. \u201cMy mother died when she was 46. She was young, and we didn\u2019t have very much family, so she was the only one in my life. It was terrible. Then my father died, and that was sad. My sister got married, and they went away.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

That ended with Danny.<\/p>\n

Julia, who has lived in Torrance for 60 years, said she has spent virtually every day with her son. And both describe each other as \u201cbest friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was a very loving mother,\u201d Danny said. \u201cMy best friend to this day. We did everything together and we were very close. She taught me so many good morals in life and was my biggest cheerleader. She always taught me that if there\u2019s something that you want out of life, you have to focus on that and you will achieve it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Julia said that she is proud of her son and believes the most important thing she ever did as a mother was love him and instill her values in him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI gave him all my love, all my good qualities for him to learn,\u201d she said. \u201cTo be kind, to be generous, to think of other people. And so he\u2019s like that, he\u2019s very, very kind, very nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

These days, their roles have reversed; Danny cares for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing left to teach him,\u201d Julia said. \u201cI\u2019m very happy because he\u2019s good to me. He is impacted by the love that I gave him when he was little.\u201d<\/p>\n

She gave him something else, too.<\/p>\n

When Danny was a teen, Julia decided to track down his birth mother. Having been a mother for many years, she could not stop thinking about the sacrifice that his birth mother had made, and she wanted that woman to know her son.<\/p>\n

\u201cI looked for her for three years,\u201d Julia said. \u201cAnd, finally, I found her. I changed her life completely because she never thought she would find him. She loves me like her own mother, and I love her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now that she has turned 100, Julia feels grateful that her son has his birth mother in his life. She doesn\u2019t want him to feel the loneliness she experienced when her parents died.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was such a blessing having him and then finding his mother,\u201d she said. \u201cI always thought, \u2018When I die, he\u2019s going to be alone. He has to have someone to love him.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u201cNow he does.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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