Apopka resident Fern\u00a0Clayton\u00a0celebrated\u00a0her 100th birthday on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Clayton was born\u00a0as\u00a0Fern Willa\u00a0Fieldhouse\u00a0on March 21, 1926, in Dearborn, Michigan.\u00a0Until she turned 18, her grandparents raised her in the country, where she loved animals and eating raw vegetables.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During World War II,\u00a0Clayton\u00a0worked at a local Army supply depot, then married a U.S. Army soldier after the war. She bore her only son in 1946 in\u00a0The\u00a0Bronx.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Clayton\u00a0and her family moved to Miami a year later, where\u00a0Clayton\u00a0worked as\u00a0a waitress, veterinarian assistant, and licensed practical nurse (LPN). She\u00a0relocated\u00a0to Apopka as\u00a0a retiree in 1998.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Clayton\u00a0currently lives alone, although her\u00a0son, Ron Clayton,\u00a0lives two doors away. She has no serious health issues and is still mobile,\u00a0Ron\u00a0said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apopka resident Fern\u00a0Clayton\u00a0celebrated\u00a0her 100th birthday on Saturday.\u00a0 Clayton was born\u00a0as\u00a0Fern Willa\u00a0Fieldhouse\u00a0on March 21, 1926, in Dearborn, Michigan.\u00a0Until she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-207912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}