McCormick, Be Bertha McCormick celebrates birthday toda) By Bill Hunt (a Thelnisligencer ian.) Joo Bertha McCormick has lived in two centuries, wit- City omas ane fm a visiting home sae is was born January 31, en 1900. My father’s name was Sse Charlie Buskard. My mother aac when I was seven ote hee ames years. the Second born on sion of ae she en most of Se in Belleville before moving to Toronto. It was ‘photo by: Beariha bt ivreleic 480; sihiti pletion trom city. (aener=- Danuwar ai fo future husband, Joseph A. aches and pains and my eye- McCormick. He worked for normal,” | Her memory is even better. n children. When asked about the change oldest one ; aeusetio} died pet she’s seen in her ie, she February. He was 75. My sec- quickly relates. some of her ond son (John), was lost at sea in 1945, He was on a litfle been a great many « I Corvette called saw my first car when I was seven years at the “seven years old. I remember Wey well the Be spats aati sinking of the ‘Titanie, ‘ es 12 years old when that hap- pened. “She started out with hors- es and and ended up no longer don’t get out anymore (but) I listen to ee the radio After all, T'm 100 years a The priest id comes here to visit me quite In earlier years McCormick did get AA Pepeene ate abe my crossed the Atlantic five times.” Among trips were a journey to: Ee rode a camel, and a) eerie husband, Joe, was a loco- motive engineer and is oe a meee aot the Grand Inter- an association for locomotive ge and their spouses. There are > well looked after and | ‘ain Hunt 1” mn vty intent. hope foe this house as long as I live. f ol