{"id":211597,"date":"2026-03-09T13:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211597\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:47:06","slug":"clovis-woman-celebrates-her-105th-birthday-shares-secret-to-longevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211597\/","title":{"rendered":"Clovis Woman celebrates her 105th birthday, shares secret to longevity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A Clovis woman celebrated a major milestone, marking 105 years young.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Action News was in the Neighborhood Sunday as friends, family, and the community joined in wishing Mary Rigsbee a happy birthday at the Magnolia Crossing Assisted Living Community in Clovis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Instead of a giant cake, Mary&#8217;s family opted for an ice cream social because of her love for the cool dessert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Mary was born in 1921 and has been a lifelong resident of Clovis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Her son shares the birthday girl&#8217;s secret to her longevity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;She would always tell us that it was working hard, a good sense of humor and she used to tell us that a little shot of Crown Royal once in a while never helped,&#8221; Chuck Rigsbee said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Mary Rigsbee is an active member of the Clovis Rodeo Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fun fact: her grandfather helped cook the meal for the first rodeo in 1914 when it was originally known as Clovis Days.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A Clovis woman celebrated a major milestone, marking 105 years young. Action News was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[97319,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-211597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-97319","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}