Grace Dunbar Linkhorn Born July 4, 1907. They called her "Amazing Grace," and it was truly a fitting name for this Jersey City resident. Grace Linkhorn at the time was believed to be Hudson County's oldest resident, and one of the oldest in the state. When Linkhorn was in her 70s, she was volunteering at a senior citizens center and the Social Security office in Florida. When she was in her 80s, she was wearing high heels and asking women 20 years her junior why they were walking so slowly. It wasn't until the summer of 2016 that Amazing Grace finally started to show her age. Linkhorn died on December 18, 2016, at the age of 109. Linkhorn lived through 19 presidents (and one president-elect), the Great Depression, the Civil Rights movement, and both world wars. At age 101, she proudly cast her ballot for the country's first African-American president, and acclaimed "I'm used to voting, but this was the greatest thing in the world to me," she told The Jersey Journal after voting at the Salem Lafayette Apartments on Union Street. "I never thought God would spare me to see something like this."
One of 15 children, Linkhorn was born in Wellborn, Florida. The family moved to Bayonne in 1917 and later moved to Jersey City.
Linkhorn worked at a defense plant in Newark during World War II. After the war, she worked at bra company Maidenform in Bayonne until she retired at age 65.
She moved to Florida in 1971, but the mother of four daughters made her way back to Jersey City because her kids didn't want to be too far away from family. After she was done working and done volunteering, Linkhorn lived for her family -- all six generations worth. She had nine grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren, 34 great-great-grandchildren and 7 great-great-great-grandchildren.
Rest In Peace Grace, and thank you for reminding me of my own great grandmother Mrs. Sennie Williams who left us in 1980 just one day before her 100th birthday.
G.L. McQueary
NOTE. There is no actual JCWOF, No actual Stars on the ground. This is just MY way to personally honor the many from our hometown that have inspired me and many others. I hope you enjoy them.
G.L.
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