Bonjangles restaurant celebrates 105-year-old customer’s birthday with a surprise par

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BONJANGLES RESTAURANT CELEBRATES 105-YEAR-OLD CUSTOMER’S BIRTHDAY WITH A SURPRISE PARTY
By: Jameelah Mullen - Black Enterprise News
Re: https://www.blackenterprise.com/boja...hday-customer/

#1. Charlie Lentz has been visiting his local Winston-Salem Bojangles restaurant every Sunday after church for decades.

Charlie Lentz has been visiting his local Winston-Salem Bojangles restaurant every Sunday after church for decades.
But this weekly ritual turned out to be the ultimate surprise for the restaurant regular. “Charlie came to Bojangles after
church that day expecting to uphold his typical Sunday afternoon tradition, but instead walked into a birthday celebration,
” Horace Spencer, Bojangles’ regional manager, told Business Insider.

Fentz said he was caught off guard by the unforeseen celebration.

“This was a big surprise,” the restaurant regular told WXII-TV.

Fentz, who recently turned 105, was greeted by a crowd of party-goers who gathered to celebrate the milestone birthday.
Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines joined family and friends as they sang the traditional and Stevie Wonder renditions of
“Happy Birthday” to Fentz. Dressed in a suit and a bedazzled Bojangles velvet crown, the guest of honor sat on his throne
as he was showered with gifts and well wishes. The attendees enjoyed cake, punch, and Fentz’s favorite Sunday meal,
Bojangles chicken.

“He’s very consistent with his order. His go to is the leg and thigh 2 piece. And a lot of times before he even gets in the door,
the employees have it ready for him.” Spencer told WXII TV.

Fentz, a World War II veteran, walked to church every Sunday until he was 90 years old. The local celebrity says he enjoys
going out into the community so he rides the bus three times a day. He also said he was very close to his mother.

“I guess you could say I was a mama’s boy,” he said in an interview with WXII TV.

When asked what he is thankful for, the 105-year-old said he is thankful for life.

“To be alive,” he told NBC News affiliate KYMA. “That’s what I’m thankful for, to be alive.”

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#2. Mr. Thomas Taylor, a World War II veteran from Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, has turned 100 years old
and is now one of the oldest living African American survivors.

In a Facebook post, the staff members from Butler Street Senior Living are celebrating Thomas’ milestone, and has
so far exceeded its goal to receive 100 letters of congratulations equivalent to Thomas’ 100 fruitful years.

The center said it is only right to pay tribute to Taylor for his sacrifices far from his home during World War II.
And sadly, when he returned home, he had to endure the death of his wife and son.

Despite that, Taylor says he lived a fulfilling life.

“When you’re having problems don’t let them get to you, just stick them out and try to realize what you can do,
if you can do something do it, if you can’t don’t try and overload yourself,” he told FOX43.
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Personal note: This also known as old wood - to many over 100 yrs old!
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God Bless Them - I sericely won't make a 100 - but I wish them both well
and let them know they were gifted with old age and to keep moving until
you just can't no more!
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