Woman turns 100, shares LI memories
Photo credit: Newsday / Audrey C. Tiernan | Madeleine Turpan, who turned 100 years old on Sept. 25, at The Bristal in Massapequa. (Sept. 16, 2012)
Madeleine Turpan turns 100, shares LI memories
She cried when her father almost went to World War I.
She lost a cherry tree and had no electricity for three days when the Great Hurricane of 1938 swept through Long Island. She watched John F. Kennedy being shot on television. And she listened to Neil Armstrong's moon landing on the radio. Now she is about to become one of Nassau County's centenarians.
Madeleine Turpan, who for many...
