Pauline Hirschler will turn 100 years old on Dec. 20, 2011. A family celebration will be held Dec. 17.

Pauline Marie Lutz was born in Lima to Alarta and Tymah Fay Roush Lutz. She earned a two-year teaching certificate from Bowling Green and taught for two years in a one-room schoolhouse in Allen County and then at Horace Mann Elementary School in Lima.

She married Alfred Hirschler of Bluffton, in 1940 and moved East to the Philadelphia area. Alfred died in 1972, and Pauline remained in the East, involved in many activities until 13 years ago when she moved to Bluffton.

She has one daughter, Marilyn (Gary) Bishop of Bluffton. Grandchildren are Jeff (Kathy) Bishop of Bluffton, Dan (Carola) of Denver, Colo., and Emily (Jon) Emery of Beavercreek. She has five great-grandchildren.