MUHLENBERG TWP., Pa. \u2014 There are birthdays, and then there’s turning 100.<\/p>\n
“Well, I guess I reached 100,” Robert “Hutch” Hutchinson said.<\/p>\n
Robert Hutchinson, or Hutch, made it Wednesday. When asked if he had a secret to reaching the milestone, Hutch said he didn’t.<\/p>\n
“No, I don’t have any secret on that. I just, it’s a wonder that I’ve made it this far,” Hutch said.<\/p>\n
Hutch has packed plenty into those 100 years.<\/p>\n
“Well, I got on tramp steamers, and I went all over the world, and it was a wonderful experience for me,” Hutch said.<\/p>\n
Wednesday, family and friends filled his Muhlenberg Township home.<\/p>\n
“We’re celebrating the 100th birthday of Robert Hutchinson, Jr. My father-in-law, he’s a real treasure in our family,” said his son-in-law, Mike Reinert.<\/p>\n
Across Berks County, Hutch has company. The Area Agency on Aging also celebrated 23 centenarians.<\/p>\n
“Optimists and pessimists die the same way. It depends on how they live,” said Arthur Fischman, who is 100 years old.<\/p>\n
As for Hutch, after a century of traveling, family and faith, he’s thankful.<\/p>\n
“Thank God for Jesus because somebody upstairs has been good to me and let me live the life I wanted to live,” Hutch said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MUHLENBERG TWP., Pa. \u2014 There are birthdays, and then there’s turning 100. “Well, I guess I reached 100,”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[87435,349,94437,17433,116411,112872,973,128,130,129,116410],"class_list":["post-277966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-100th-birthday","tag-berks-county","tag-centenarian","tag-faith","tag-family-celebration","tag-longevity","tag-muhlenberg-township","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-robert-hutchinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}