{"id":242365,"date":"2025-09-20T21:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/242365\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T21:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:35:10","slug":"philadelphia-woman-sings-and-dances-at-104th-birthday-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/242365\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia woman sings and dances at 104th birthday celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; Kathleen Tiernan was born on September 22, 1921.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Philadelphia woman has a lifelong love of song and dance. So there was no better way to celebrate her upcoming 104th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Friends, family, and staff at Immaculate Mary Center for Healthcare Facility surprised her with a birthday party full of singing and dancing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Tiernan&#8217;s family recalls her being an avid dancer with her husband, Joe. Unfortunately, he passed away at the age of 50.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A couple years later, Tiernan met another man, coincidentally named Joe as well, who became her longtime boyfriend and dance partner. They enjoyed the next 47 years engaging in various styles from disco to country-western line dancing until his passing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Tiernan is now cared for by the team at Immaculate Mary Center for Healthcare in Northeast Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There, she is still waving her arms and tapping her feet to the sound of music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Watch the video above to see how Tiernan celebrated her upcoming 104th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/104-year-old-woman-has-led-life-loving-philadelphia\/17461957\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RELATED: 104-year-old woman has led a life of loving Philadelphia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 104 years, Neysa Adams has built a family, traveled the world, met face-to-face with world leaders, and helped her city grow into a better place.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; Kathleen Tiernan was born on September 22, 1921. The Philadelphia woman has a lifelong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":242366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[129319,5229,59677,129321,246,129322,1448,10669,2830,1311,129320,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,11459],"class_list":{"0":"post-242365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-104th","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-birthday","11":"tag-dances","12":"tag-family","13":"tag-kathleen-tiernan","14":"tag-pa","15":"tag-party","16":"tag-pennsylvania","17":"tag-philadelphia","18":"tag-sings","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-woman"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115238779489468593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}