UPDATED: Aase Haugen recognizes its six 100-year-old residents on "National Centenarian Day"

(Left to right): Thelma Schroeder (in white), Luella Young (in floral print), Greta Bruns (in purple) and Angeline Jacobson (in dark blue)

Friday is "National Centenarian Day"—a day to recognize people 100-years-old and older.  The Aase Haugen Home in Decorah has six centenarians living there.

Aase Haugen Homes on Friday honored its six residents who are at least 100 years old.  Aase Haugen Homes Marketing Director Kate Klimesh says the institution plans to make the honoring of its 100-year-old residents an annual tradition.

Greta Bruns is 102 years old.  She was born in 1908 near Clayton Center which is between Monona, Luana and Farmbersburg area. 

Luella Young is 101 years old.  She was born July 17, 1910 on a farm one mile north of Locust to Alwin & Caroline Pfister. 

Orville Running is 101 years old.  After graduating from high school in 1927, Orville Running went to St. Olaf College where he studied art, then to Luther Theological Seminary.  One day, when his children were teasing him about being so fastidious, he picked up a banana smashed it between his hands & rubbed it thoroughly through his hair – creating a spiky hairdo.

 Angeline Jacobson is 101 years old. 

Cecelia Gerleman is 100 years old.  She has seven children, 26 grandchildren, 4 step grandchildren, 45 great grandchildren, 14 step grandchildren and 4 great great grandchildren.

 Thelma Schroeder is 100 years old.  When Thelma Schroeder was a child Teddy Roosevelt was President.  She can remember candy costing a nickel and movies costing a dime.  The first car she can remember is a Model T.  "I never thought that I'd live this long," says Thelma, who grew up in Eldorado and moved to the Aase Haugen Home five years ago,