I Waited 96 Years!

Jean Friedman, 99

Wallingford, PA

 

“I needed to vote to make sure women would continue to have a voice and decision about their own lives”

 

• Born January 1917 in Staunton, VA

• Was married for 76 years

• Had two twin sisters (one her best friend), who died in 2011

• One son, who died in his twenties

 

“I did not have the right to vote upon my birth. At my current age of 99, I needed to vote to make sure women would continue to have a voice and decision about their own lives.”

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