On May 5, Aileen Cecelia Dubois will celebrate her 100th birthday. She was born in Northport, Wash., to Earl and Margaret O’Daniel on May 5, 1912. Her father worked for the Great Northern Railroad as a station agent.

In 1931, Aileen graduated from high school and married Charles Dubois. Three children were born to them; Rodney, Susan and Timothy. During World War II, the family lived in Wenatchee, Wash., where Mrs. Dubois helped the war effort by working in apple warehouses, sorting and packing apples for the troops.

After Mr. Dubois retired from Creamery Package, a dairy supply company, the family moved to Mercer Island in 1966, to a house on S.E. 40th Street where Aileen resided until 2008. She now lives in a group home.

“This is the best place on God’s green earth to live,” Mrs. Dubois often said of Mercer Island, where she enjoyed daily walks. In the summer she picked blackberries for cobblers and jam, and canned fruit and preserves.

Mrs. Dubois has seven grandsons and five great-grandchildren, and one sister, Joan McRae.

A private birthday party is planned.