Even though she is 100 years old, Lois Eleanor Allison enjoys being a techie.

She loves playing with her iphone, which has many features such as games, text messaging and social media.

“That’s the way I communicate with my family,” said Allison, who lives west of Middletown.

Gail Hartman, Allison’s daughter, said the iphone is a necessity for her mother.

“She uses her I-phone and she would be lost about that,” Hartman said. “If something goes wrong with that, I have to get there and get it fixed because she can’t stand not having her phone and not playing her games, getting her text messages and Facebooking.”

At her 100th birthday party at the Allen Events Center in Montgomery City on July 14, Allison didn’t bring her iphone. On this day, it wasn’t necessary for her to bring it. For two hours, she was greeted with love and birthday wishes from many of her friends and family members.

“I lived 100 years and I met a lot of people,” Allison said.

Allison lived in Montgomery County for most of her life. She was one of her five children in her family. She graduated from Wellsville High School in 1941. Two years later, she married Arthur Allison and both lived a farm life that included no running water in the house, inside bathroom, electricity in the house, refrigerator, washing machine, dryer and heater/air conditioner.

Allison later enjoyed a pretty active life that included selling real estate and Avon products, heading her own ceramic shop, doing oil painting and hunting deer and squirrels.

“She’s a person with many talents,” Hartman said.

Hartman created a slideshow of her mother’s life that was shown at the birthday party. She found some very interesting facts about Allison’s family.

“She had eight first cousins who lived over 90,” Hartman said. “One of them lived to be 100. She had three uncles who lived over 90 and one of those lived to 103. She has that heritage of longevity.”

Hartman said wishing her mother a happy 100th birthday on July 14 was pretty special.

“I never dreamed I would call my mother up on July 14, 2024 and say happy 100th birthday,” she said. “We always said that she would live to be 100. She’s in good health and she’s very active. She is still at home alone and knows where we are. She does all of these things that have kept her busy.”

Allison passed away on July 17.