'I learned to fly before I learned to drive'
Betty Warnick at her 100th birthday party. She actually turned 100 last month, she said, but the party was held in July so that out-of-area family wouldn’t have to travel in the winter.
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Betty Warnick learned to fly at 19, and didn’t tell her parents until it was time to get their permission to solo.
Betty Warnick introduces a grandchild to horsemanship. She kept riding into her 90s, she said.
A teenage Betty Warnick around 1942, when she graduated from high school in Rapid City, South Dakota. Shortly after graduating, she took a job at the Hanford Reservation working on the atomic bomb project.
MOSES LAKE — Betty Warnick, who turned 100 in January, has never been one to sit still, whether it was taking off cross-country for a new job or taking a plane up in the air.
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