At a reception in honor of her 100th birthday, the first copy of the book Reminiscences: My 100 Years will be presented to Dorothy Louise Gadberry Irwin Hemphill. The reception will be held at 3 p.m. on August 26 at Princeton Windrows.

Mrs. Hemphill was born in Carthage, Missouri on August 26, 1916. In 1937 she married Arnold Irwin and they lived together in Joplin, Missouri until his death in 1959. In 1973 she married Morris Hemphill and they lived in Webb City and Carthage, Missouri until his death in 1994. After his death she moved to Oneida and later Syracuse, New York to be near her daughter, Joyce Irwin. In 2012, she moved with her daughter and son-in-law to Princeton Windrows.

When at Windrows, she joined a group called “Reminiscences on paper.” Participants wrote short pieces relating anecdotes from their lives and read them to the other members of the group. To celebrate her 100th birthday, her son and daughter have assembled the stories and searched the family archives to find pictures to illustrate each one. The book was printed in the Netherlands, where her son currently resides.

In addition to the residents of Princeton Windrows, the reception will be attended by many members of Mrs. Hemphill’s extended family from the Netherlands, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Montana, Kansas, Oklahoma, New York and New Jersey.