At 106, age just a number for World War II vet

Staff photo by Mary Kemper At 106 years young, William ‘Bill’ Mohr, a World War II Army veteran, still ‘snowbirds’ each year with his wife, Josephine, 97, from their home at Harbor Place, Port St. Lucie, to Hatboro, Penn.

Staff photo by Mary Kemper
At 106 years young, William ‘Bill’ Mohr, a World War II Army veteran, still ‘snowbirds’ each year with his wife, Josephine, 97, from their home at Harbor Place, Port St. Lucie, to Hatboro, Penn.


Mary Kemper
Staff Writer
He’s got bright blue eyes, a thick head of white hair and a smile that won’t quit.
Quick with a quip, he speaks with a slight impediment, but not because William “Bill” Mohr is 106.
Everyone who reaches the age of this Army veteran of World War II gets a lot of attention — and rightly so. Mohr is no exception. He’s had quite a life, with no end in sight in the immediate future.
“I enlisted in the Army before the war, because I wanted to be in the Army. My country needed me,” Mohr said Dec. 17, at a luncheon given by Harbor Place, where Mohr and his wife, Josephine, 97, spend half their time each year. Harbor Place provides luncheon and a movie or video each month for the veterans.
(Yes, you read that correctly: The Mohrs are still snowbirds, dividing their year between Port St. Lucie and Hatboro, Penn.)
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