105-year-old Louisiana woman becomes first her age to run 100 meters [View all]

After correspondent David Begnaud asked if she was impressed by the record, Hawkins answered: “No, not particularly. I had too many other wonderful things before this. This is just a drop in the bucket.”

One of those wonderful things: her 70-year marriage to her husband, Free Hawkins Jr., a former schoolmate at LSU and a soldier in the United States military.

“I met him the first day at LSU. I went home and wrote about him in my diary. He was so smart and so clever and so fun. He had a good sense of humor, and he was vivacious and wonderful. We were married by telephone,” she explained.

The couple raised four children and were joyously married until “Buddy,” as she called him, passed away at 95 years old.

“This is just a drop in the bucket”: At 105 years old, Julia Hawkins became the first woman and first American in her age group to run 100 meters.

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