A hardworking mother-of-four, Ruby Holt, 100-year-old woman sees ocean for the first time just weeks before she heads for her 101st birthday on December 13.
Her long time dream was fulfilled with the help of Brookdale Senior Living Solutions, an assisted living center where Holt is living in Columbia, Tennessee, and the Wish of a Lifetime organization, an organization that fulfills wishes to the elderly.
The assisted living center and the organization made it possible for Holt to see the ocean for the first time as they arrange an all-expense-paid trip to Perdido Beach resort at Gulf Mexico.
For a simple mother who had been busy working all her life, raising the kids and prioritizing on needed bills to be paid, taking a vacation to the beach has never been their main concern. The 100-year-old woman who sees ocean for the first time got really thrilled as she set her eyes at the sea.
Living with her husband and four children, the centenarian had spent her whole years tending their children and working as a cotton picker in a rural area in Tennessee. She shared that she has never been out to see the ocean and it has been her wish that one day to see its beauty.
Feeling the water in this chilling weather is expected to be cold, but the 100-year-old woman who sees ocean for the first time didn't mind it. She was grinning and laughing as the cold Gulf water touches her feet for the first time.
"I've heard people talk about it and how wonderful it was and wanted to see it, but I never had the opportunity to do so," Holt claimed. As the 100-year-old woman sees ocean for the first time, she exclaimed, she has never seen anything as big as the ocean before.
The 100-year-old woman was speechless as she sees the ocean for the first time. She told in an interview that she and her husband had been so busy working and had no time to take a vacation and go to the beach. She added they don't even have the means to spend for a holiday vacation.
Mark Davis, executive director of Brookdale's Sterling House, said that Debbie Surgeon and Tracy Marcy, the two workers in the assisted living center filled out the application for Holt after knowing that the 100-year-old woman wanted to see the ocean for the first time.
Holt's wish to see the ocean for the first time was granted early November. The trip was made as soon as possible before Holt turns 101 in December. For Holt, it was a memory that she will always cherish.
The 100-Year-old woman who sees the ocean for the first time recounted that it was her second time only to exit from her own place Giles County, Tennessee about 400 miles north of the Gulf.
With the help of Surgeon and Marcy, Holt roamed through her donated motorized wheelchair to witness the beauty of the sea. She then stood up with the two worker's assistance and step with her bare foot to feel the cold Gulf water.
"We don't have nothing like this in Giles County!" Holt told the two workers.
