Scranton.<\/a><\/p>\n“Well, it feels good,” said Sister Marionette. “You get a lot of attention.”<\/p>\n
Originally from Pittsburgh, Sister Marionette was born on November 17th, 1921. She was one of twelve children in a large Irish Catholic family.<\/p>\n
Her faith led her to join the convent at the age of 17, a decision she remembers vividly. “When I came to the convent, I came on the night train from Pittsburgh, by myself. The sisters got me a special card for clergy. And I wasn\u2019t clergy,” said Marionette.<\/p>\n
Over her nine decades of service to God and more than a century of life, Sister has seen a great deal.<\/p>\n
She has lived through 18 different U.S. Presidents, she’s 8 years older than the country of Yugoslavia, and she was even alive before the start of and witnessed the fall of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n
But her favorite part of it all has been working with kids.<\/p>\n
“This one kid said to me one day, You never get sick, do you? And I said, ‘No, so don\u2019t plan on it. Because he wanted me to miss the damn school. I never missed a day of school,” said Marionette.<\/p>\n
Sister plans to continue her daily games of Scrabble and chatting with those around her.<\/p>\n
Just a few of the things she credits with getting her to 104 years old.<\/p>\n
“I take that, you take it one day at a time, and you try to make that a good day,” said Marionette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sister Marionette Coll has lived through 18 different U.S. presidents, and she’s 8 years older than the country…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-44522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44522","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=44522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}