- Martha worked for six years for Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh when there was only one Mellon Bank.

As a child, Martha remembers pushing her sister in a wicker buggy while on roller skates.

- Martha was once sledding with her brother Malcolm when she fell off the sled and hurt her shoulder. Malcolm ran home and announced Martha was dead.

- Martha led the Christian Endeavor program at Point Breeze Presbyterian Church. Her future husband, Guy, was her consultant.

- Martha was the secretary of the Bible class at Bakerstown Presbyterian Church.

- Martha earned a bachelor's degree at Lake Erie College, majoring in French and studying organ. She graduated in 1928. Her French teacher invited Martha to accompany her as she returned home to France for the summer. Martha's father told her it would be too expensive because she was the first of five to be put through college.

- Martha played the organ at a Baptist church in Rosedale.

- Martha owned and drove a light blue 1971 Ford Pinto.

- Martha was alarmed when her son David rode his Taylor-Tot down the basement stairs, landing in a box of rags on the landing.

Martha gave the cook at Newhaven Court advice on how to prepare more nutritious meals: less breading and more vegetables.

- Martha flew to Europe and traveled on a Presbyterian Heritage tour.

- Martha volunteered and worked in the gift shop at St. Barnabas Nursing Home for 10 years. While at St. Barnabas, she organized monthly dinners for her floor.

- Martha amazed her neighbors at St Barnabas by circumnavigating the apartments five times at a pop.

- Martha and Guy were founding members of Penn Hill Presbyterian Church. Guy was church treasurer and Martha was the first organist.

- Martha and Guy delayed their marriage for several years because Guy supported his mother in Atlanta.

- Martha is excellent with arithmetic and always reconciled her checkbook with the bank statements. She kept excellent records and was often complimented by her financial adviser and her tax preparer.

- Martha was single for 31 years, married for 33 years and has been widowed for 36 years.

- Martha and Guy were married at Martha's home on Reynolds Street because there is no center aisle at Point Breeze Church.

- Martha worked in the Travelers' Cheque Department at Mellon Bank, because women weren't allowed to be tellers.

- Martha graduated from Lake Erie College in 1928. She still keeps in touch with her classmate, Olive Pannebaker.

- Martha was paid 35 cents per hour to work in the office of the Alumnae Secretary at Lake Erie College.

- Martha went to business school in the evening while she was working at Mellon Bank. She took shorthand and stenographic subjects, hoping to advance her career.

- Favorite expressions of Martha's are "shucks," "fiddlesticks," "good night nurse" and "bark, bark, bark" when someone is coughing.

- Martha has been complaining about her "pesky knees" for 50 years. Her daughter, Lynne, made knee warmers for her.

Martha sold her 1971 pinto, with 11,000 miles on it, to her granddaughter, Laurel in 1982. Mice had made their home in the ventilating system, and the car smelled like stale mouse for months.

Martha taught her granddaughter Cheryl to roller-skate on the basement floor at 8902 Summit Ave.

Martha's mother, Pearl Hoagland Tinker, was a good cook who saw to it that Martha and her siblings ate properly. Martha was raised on a farm with a large garden and fresh vegetables.

- In 1933, Martha traveled by train to Chicago to visit the World's Fair.

At age 100, Martha has all of her own teeth.

Before each election, Martha, a registered Republican, and Guy, a registered Democrat, would study the League of Women Voters Guide and decide how to vote.

- Martha took a summer course in organ at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and took her test on the organ in the Carnegie Music Hall.

Taken from a list of 100 remembrances compiled by the family of Martha Elizabeth Tinker Blewett of Center Township, who will celebrate her 100th birthday on Christmas.