101-Year-Old Woman Graduates High School

A 101-year-old woman fulfilled her lifelong dream of earning her high school diploma, KCRG reported.

Pearl Russ of Wheatland only made it to eighth grade before dropping out of high school to help her family.

“In those years we just didn’t do those things,” she said. “We couldn’t, because the wages wasn’t there, and my dad didn’t get that much money.”

Russ donned a cap and gown and walked before friends and family to get her honorary diploma at a ceremony at her nursing home, Wheatland Manor Care Facility.

She gave a short speech afterward, saying, “Thank you everybody for having something like this happen, it means a lot.”

“It’s never too late to go do what you want do, to find your goal and your drive in life,” she added.