Happy 100th, Reba Swain!

Reba Swain has baked more than 70,000 chocolate cakes in her lifetime.
"We still have the pan," says her son, Roy. "She baked that chocolate cake every single day, but I guess that's what you do when you have seven boys."
Swain stopped baking about two years ago and now just takes life easy. That's what one does when they near the century mark.
More than 30 family and friends gathered at Christopher's Hampton Building on Sunday to celebrate Swain's 100th birthday.
"It's just another day," said Swain, surveying the array the food and gifts on the tables around her. "But I did get a nice new dress."
Swain was born in a log cabin in Byrdstown, Tenn., one of 18 children.
"She was somewhere in the middle," Roy said.
She migrated to Christopher in her 20s to join her sister and look for work. She didn't find a job, but she did find a husband, Tom Swain.
Swain and her husband raised seven sons.
"She baked every single day," Roy said. "It was nothing for her to make six or seven pies. She could bake anything."
Roy said she also made jelly and canned vegetables grown in her garden.
"She used to can corn on the cob whole, in those big-mouthed jars," Roy said.
These days, Swain, who still maintains her home with a little help from family and a local homemaker service, is content to take life easy and watch "Judge Judy" every day.
"It comes on a 11," she said. "I tell you, those people just aggravate me but she puts them in their place," she added with a grin.
"She's still a spitfire," said daughter-in-law Becki Bondi, one of the organizers of the celebration.
Along with a table full of gifts, Swain said she got birthday cards.
"I got a card from Mary-Ann Maloney on Channel 12 and one from Gov. Rauner," she said. "But I didn't get one from Trump."