That’s what Barbara Read said when asked Sunday how it feels to turn 100. She celebrates her birthday today. Barbara grew up in Edgewood and attended Cranston High School – now Cranston East – and Bryant College before taking a secretarial job with a Providence law firm. She recalled the happiest days of her life being with her husband, Allan, who was a Merchant Marine and captain of an oil tanker, and raising a family at their Gov. Francis home in Warwick. For some time the family lived in Venezuela. She said it was always wonderful to have her husband “home from the seas.” Today, Barbara lives at Greenwich Farms assisted living. She said she was delighted and surprised that her son, John, his daughter, Rebecca Cavaliere, and her husband, Michael, flew from Florida to celebrate the occasion following Sunday service at Trinity Episcopal Church in Pawtuxet. While she has an aversion to politics that she finds have become too divisive, she has a love for Rhode Island. “I like the history of it and the salt water. Can you imagine living in Nebraska?” As witness to many changes, Barbara said one of the most dramatic for the state has been the decline of manufacturing. Gathering at the church with Barbara were her daughter, Victoria Read; son John; granddaughter Rebecca; great-granddaughter Charlotte Read; and Michael Cavaliere. Barbara is also the grandmother of Andrew Read and Alana Nanz, who with her husband, Eric, are the parents of Amelia, Barbara’s great-granddaughter. (Warwick Beacon photo)