Chicago Woman Celebrates 109th Birthday
CHICAGO (CBS) -- She's been alive long enough to see both of the Cubs last two World Series wins and now a Chicago woman is celebrating another birthday.
Daisy Driss turned 109 on New Year's Day.
She celebrated over brunch at Ann Sather on Belmont with relatives, who brought her flowers and a white wrist corsage.
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Driss doesn't have a list of dos and don'ts to explain why she's lived so long in such good health. She credits God, who she says "has control over everything".
Her great grand niece Jan Bensdorf says several of Driss' eight sisters lived to be in their 90s and the family jokes that she lived the longest because she and her late husband never had any kids.
Driss still lives on her own but has two caregivers.
She says she reads the newspaper everyday but had to stop going to the symphony because she can't hear very well.
Ann Sather's owner, Ald. Tom Tunney, says his mother and Driss were friends.
