Centenarians (from left) Ruth Chatman Hammett, Gladys Ware Butler and
Bernice Grimes Underwood, sitting next to a portrait of Leona Barnes,
receive flowers Saturday during their100th birthday celebration at Zion
Baptist Church in Washington
On Saturday June 18,2016, three Washington, D.C., women, best friends for nearly a century, celebrated reaching triple digits during a ceremony at Zion Baptist Church in northwest Washington - the church they have all regularly attended since childhood.
They were all born in June or July of 1916.
They had hoped a fourth close friend, Leona Barnes, would be able to take part in the festivities, but she died in May, two months shy of her 100th birthday.
The ceremony also paid tribute to Barnes, and a large portrait of her sat on the church bench beside her friends throughout the 90-minute service.
On Saturday June 18,2016, three Washington, D.C., women, best friends for nearly a century, celebrated reaching triple digits during a ceremony at Zion Baptist Church in northwest Washington - the church they have all regularly attended since childhood.
They were all born in June or July of 1916.
They had hoped a fourth close friend, Leona Barnes, would be able to take part in the festivities, but she died in May, two months shy of her 100th birthday.
The ceremony also paid tribute to Barnes, and a large portrait of her sat on the church bench beside her friends throughout the 90-minute service.
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