Florence “Fireball Flo” Hackman, the Ohio girl who went viral final yr after getting photographs to have a good time her birthday, just lately turned 106 — and she or he’s nonetheless ingesting Fireball.
“Flo brightens up our days and reminds us of all of the enjoyable and joys we are able to expertise later in life,” Kristen Kelly, government director of Traditions of Deerfield Seniors in Loveland, Ohio, the place Hackman lives, informed Fox Information Digital.
Hackman’s pleased perspective is “such an inspiring way of life and we love her for it,” Kelly mentioned.
Born on December 16, 1918, “Fireball Flo” credit her lengthy life to a optimistic perspective.
“I simply attempt to be good to folks and attempt to go daily — that is all,” Heckman mentioned in a quote posted by Traditions of Deerfield.
“If you happen to get that sooner or later, then you’ll be able to go on to the following,” she mentioned.
“So that is what you need to do – day-to-day – take into consideration what I’ve to do at the moment. It’s a must to maintain transferring so long as you’ll be able to.”
There can also be a genetic part to her longevity: her mom lived to be 104.
In a video posted on Hackman’s birthday, she may be seen thanking everybody for popping out to have a good time her and inspiring them to “have plenty of enjoyable right here.”
Her household has “at all times had plenty of enjoyable and I’ve by no means gotten over it … So perhaps that is why I have been right here so lengthy,” she mentioned with a smile.
Hackman appears to have heeded her personal recommendation.
She sang “Completely satisfied Birthday” and drank a glass of alcohol earlier than blowing out the candles on her chocolate frosted birthday cake.
The Ohio native and die-hard Cincinnati Bengals fan was additionally acknowledged by the group on her birthday.
She hopes the Bengals, who’re at present 6-8 and third within the AFC North, will return to the Tremendous Bowl.
“I hope they go to the Tremendous Bowl, and we might definitely like that. That might be an enormous factor. And, I suppose, hopefully, they’re going to do it whereas I am nonetheless right here,” Heckman mentioned.
Final yr, in honor of her one hundred and fifth birthday, Fireball despatched Hackman 105 photographs of its Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey, Fox Information Digital reported on the time.
