Lots to remember for 109-year-old Flossie Dickey

When you live to be 109 years old, you end up with a lot of memories.

So many that sometimes it's difficult to keep things straight, Cheney Care Center resident Flossie Dickey said as she celebrated her 109th birthday last Wednesday with care center residents and many family and friends who stopped by or called almost all day long.

Dickey was born Feb. 18, 1906, in "a little country town" called Yoncolla, Ore., that she said was somewhere near Corvallis.

"I couldn't tell you," she said. "I haven't been there in years."

Dickey's parents moved to the Inland Northwest when she was still an infant...