RICHARD STEPHENS / PVT Teddy Kreuter of Beatty celebrated her 100th birthday recently. Advertisement

When she was born, Rhyolite was still booming and Picasso was inventing Cubism. Plastic had not been invented yet, nor had Ford introduced his Model T.

Fortunately for her, Oreo cookies were introduced when she was 5, which was also the year the Titanic went down. She was 13 when women got the right to vote in the United States and 20 when the first talking movie came out and Lindbergh made his famous flight.

Teddy (Helena Meabry) Kreuter celebrated her 100th birthday June 21 at the Beatty Senior Center. She was born on that day in 1907 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (See photo page A1.)

Kreuter and her husband Ockie moved to Beatty from San Francisco in 1965 and bought the house they called "the pink palace," in which she still lives.

She and her husband were founding members of, and contributors to, the first Beatty senior center in the former Episcopal church. They also helped with the second senior center in the building now used by the Lions Club.

Kreuter served as a member of the Beatty Library Board of Trustees, and also contributed to the library financially and as a volunteer.

As part of the celebration, friend and former library board colleague Shirley Harlan presented Kreuter with a Silver State Centenarian plaque from the governor's office.

Keruter's "birthday cake" for her special day was a big plate of pancakes with a single candle.

The center's director, Lorayne White explained that the people at the center were aware of Kreuter's love of pancakes, and they opted for the single candle "because we didn't want the fire department to have to come."