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Veteran celebrates 100th birthday

Published 1:30 am Wednesday, May 8, 2019

(Courtesy photo) Grant Edwards, right, takes a bite of his 100th birthday cake Saturday during a celebration at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in Montesano.
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(Courtesy photo) Grant Edwards, right, takes a bite of his 100th birthday cake Saturday during a celebration at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in Montesano.

(Courtesy photo) Grant Edwards, right, takes a bite of his 100th birthday cake Saturday during a celebration at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in Montesano.
(Courtesy photo) Members of the Montesano Veterans of Foreign Wars post celebrated Grant Edwards’ 100th birthday with this cake on Saturday.

Members of the Montesano Veterans of Foreign Wars post celebrated Grant Edwards’ 100th birthday on Saturday.

Edwards, who lives in Aberdeen, is a lifetime member of the Monte VFW post.

He was born May 3, 1919, in Great Falls, Montana. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy on Dec. 11, 1939. During his 20-year Navy career, Edwards was stationed in San Diego, where he was in Hospital Corps School; Bremerton; aboard the USS Hendry attack transport; Aberdeen; Camp Pendleton, California; and El Toro, California. He transferred to the Navy Reserve on Aug. 1, 1960.

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