Abstract
Doris Bauer Riethmiller came into a tumultuous world in 1918.
She beat the odds while so many then were falling victim to the influenza pandemic, which killed 675,000 Americans and some 50 million others around the world that year alone. That's more than were killed—about 16 million—in all four years of World War I.
Life expectancy for women born in 1918 was about 42 years. As of this December, Mrs. Riethmiller was 99-plus and still going strong. She now lives in Lighthouse Pointe Village at Chapel Harbor, a pretty retirement community in O'Hara on the Allegheny River and close to where she's lived all her full and fun life.
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