ALEXANDRIA — Turning butter every day is a task Rose Gibson fondly remembers doing when she was growing up on her family’s farm near Stirum, North Dakota.

Gibson, who now lives in Alexandria, also remembers lowering the milk and cream into the well because her family didn’t have a refrigerator. The milk and cream were both stored in the tin cans Karo corn syrup used. The family would reuse the cans because they sealed tightly, similar to paint cans today.

On Thursday, Oct. 2, Gibson will celebrate her 102nd birthday, the age she wanted to live to because she thought it would be pretty neat to turn 102 on 10-2.

Last week, she was interviewed in her apartment at Windmill Ponds with a good friend of hers, Rose Shorma. The two Roses became friends after Gibson moved in across the street fr

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