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Show Iowa Centenarian Sounds (diallonge As Garden Champ OELWEIN. IOWA. - Belying his 106 years. Peter Duffy once again j has Issued his perennial challenge I that he can pull weeds faster and I out-hoe any gardener in Oelweln. Despite his age. Duffy has the vigor of a man in his twenties and ( doesn't even need glasses to read the evening paper. His only physical physi-cal handicap is deafness. Of his original family of nine children, chil-dren, seven still are living nnd from here on out the Duffy progeny are numerous. "I sure started something," commented com-mented DulTy. as he counted his 24 grandchildren and 2? great-grand-children. Duffy came to Iowa with one of his 12 brothers nnd his three sisters to work on the farm of relatives But his wnnderlust wasn't sntisflcd 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 sir trnvel. One of his grnnddaughtcrs took him for a plane ride eight years ngo nnd ho never forgot the event. |