Show iowa centenarian sounds challenge As garden champ OELWEIN IOWA belying his years peter duffy once again has issued his perennial cha challenge 11 enge that he can pull weeds faster and out hoe any gardener in oelwein despite his age duffy has the vigor of a man in his twenties and doesn doean t even need glasses to read the evening paper his only cal handicap is deafness of his original family of nine chil dren seven still are living and from here on out the duffy progeny are numerous I 1 sure started something corn com dented duffy as he counted his hiss 24 2244 grandchildren and 25 great grand children duffy came to iowa with one of his 12 brothers and his three sisters to work on the larm tarm of relatives but his wanderlust wasn gasn t satisfied it took a trek to the west and a little silver mining to get traveling out of duffy s system before he came back to the tall Corn state to make his permanent home duffy also is a booster of air travel one of his granddaughters took him for a plane ride eight years a ago go and he never forgot the event |