And now we can ride anywhere. She credits the love of her family for her happy disposition. As a child who grew up jumping rope for fun and milking cows for necessity, she felt loved, she said. Asked whether her parents had lived a long time, she said they died young. I think my mother was 85 and my father was around 80.
Longevity runs in the family.
Her brother, McKinley Johnson, turned 103 a few days after her birthday. A sister, Carrie Kier, died at 107. She has lived in Dominion Place, a Richmond retirement community, since 1994. Agee said that except for oseteoarthritis and hearing problems, she feels good. In her younger days, she enjoyed dancing.