Hazel Kline Neddo, who lives with a daughter in Chattanooga, will celebrate her 100th birthday on Monday.
She was born on May 18, 1920, in South Bend, Indiana, the last of 13 children. She lived in the South Bend area until she married her sailor husband, Francis Jackson Neddo, on Aug. 4, 1946. They moved to Dayton, Tennessee, in 1950, and later to Sale Creek.
For more than 60 years, they were home missionaries with Cedine Bible Mission (now Cedine Ministries) in Spring City, Tennessee. Mr. Neddo died in 2006.
Mrs. Neddo has seven children (one deceased), 14 grandchildren (one deceased), 20 great-grandchildren and one on the way, along with several stepgrandchildren.