Crest Haven Residents Mark 101st, 100th Birthdays

CREST HAVEN – Two Crest Haven Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center centenarians celebrated landmark birthdays June 2, 2010. Undine (Dina) Daugherty turned 101 on June 5 while Ellennora (Nora) Pine turned 100 on June 2.
Freeholder Gerald Thornton presented both with resolutions on behalf of the Board of Chosen Freeholders.
Daugherty was born in Bridgeton, on June 5, 1909. She attended Wildwood High School and then Pierce School of Business.
She married Edmond Daugherty and the couple settled in Court House with their three sons and operated Daugherty’s Express Moving and Storage Company.
Dina and Edmond, members of the First Baptist Church of Cape May Court House, both had a true love of horses. These equestrians split time between family, church, crossword puzzles and love of reading on the beach, cooking and trying all the ‘new’ Kraft theater recipes.
Fondly known as Dina, she is the proud grandmother of 11 and has 17 great grandchildren.
Ellennora (Nora) Pine was born in Cochranville, Pa. on June 2, 1910.
Her family moved to Gibbsboro where Nora was educated in a one-room schoolhouse, attended Haddonfield High School and worked in the town’s general store-post office.
She married Augustus Pine and they had four daughters, Helen, Roberta, Nancy and Dee. They moved to Ocean City where Pine worked at the Prudential Insurance Co. in Linwood, where she retired but continued to work summers on the Ocean City boardwalk into her late seventies.
Cooking and baking were Pine’s favorite hobbies and she was well known for her pies and cakes.
Also, she enjoyed knitting, crocheting as well as playing scrabble and pinochle.
She enjoys telling the story about running the race at the Fourth of July town picnic in Gibbsboro. Several years she ran and won and finally one year they made her start behind everyone else and she still managed to win!
Family and friends attended the birthday party in the center’s recreation room.