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Happy 102nd Dallas!

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Bowron celebrates his birthday with series of gatherings
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Mavis Fodness

Luverne’s Dallas Bowron predicted last year’s volleyball season would be his last as a spectator. Last week he cheered his great-granddaughter, Madison Crabtree, on to a home season opener win.
Wednesday, Sept. 7, was his 102nd birthday and Bowron sat with a group of family and friends who predicted he would see his 103rd birthday next year.
It was a statement he quickly dismissed and something he may not want to accomplish.
“It’s no fun being this old,” Bowron said. “You can’t do anything you used to do.”
Dancing is what daughter Judy Bowron of Plymouth said her father misses the most. Running is another activity son John of Luverne added to his dad’s can-no-longer-do list.
And there is skydiving, an activity Bowron did for his 90th birthday but can no longer do because he’s been deemed “too old.”
Bowron added he has trouble walking and remembering things.
His family and friends, however, didn’t have trouble remembering his birthday.
On Sept. 7 he was driven to breakfast in a 1930 Model A. (Bowron was 16 when the car was new.) At lunch Bowron treated the more than 50 people at Senior Dining to ice cream and he joined them in singing “Happy Birthday.”
His birthday closed with a family supper that included his two children, four granddaughters and eight great-grandchildren.
The evening featured three selections of pie, his favorite dessert according to daughter-in-law Jeanne Bowron.
Family members also have a name for Bowron who still lives on his own, requires no daily medications or hearing aids.
“He is a super-ager,” granddaughter Emily Crabtree said, a term given to Bowron by her husband, Dr. Josh Crabtree.
“Live in moderation” was the advice the retired farmer offered as the secret to becoming a super-ager.

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