Mary Margaret Watson, 88, talks in her home in Chattanooga on Saturday. Watson uses a wheelchair bound because of cerebral palsy and relies on Special Transit Services for transportation to Signal Centers.THE NEEDIEST CASES FUNDDonate onlineThe Chattanooga Times Free Press Neediest Cases Fund enters its 100th year helping those in need with donations from readers who generously give to a unique resource available year round. Contributions, which are acknowledged in the newspaper, will be accepted through Dec. 31.
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Miss Margaret – technically, Mary Margaret Watson – lives on $730 a month.
“Well, I make it,” she said Saturday afternoon.
She gets an additional $54 monthly in government food benefits, even though she doesn’t have a birth certificate because someone in 1925 forgot to count her on a census.