Show iowa centenarian sounds challenge As garden champ OELWEIN IOWA belying his years peter duffy once again has issued his perennial challenge that he can pull weeds taster faster and out hoe any gardener in oelwein despite his age duffy has the vigor of a man in his twenties and even need glasses to read the evening paper his only physical handicap is deafness of his original family of nine children seven still are living and from here on out the duffy du progeny are numerous 1 I sure started something commented duffy as he counted his 24 grandchildren and 25 great grand children duffy came to iowa with one of his 12 brothers and his three sisters to work on the farm of relatives but his wanderlust gasn wasn satisfied it took a trek to the west and a little silver mining to get traveling 0 out u t of duffas system before he c came ame back to the tall C corn orn state to make his permanent home duffy iso also Is a booster of air travel one of his granddaughters took him for a plane ride eight years ago go and he never forgot the event |