The member of Fruitland Evangelical Covenant Church recently celebrated her 109th birthday. "I don't know why God wants me on this earth for so many years, but I don't have a say in it, so I just keep going," she says.

Hogan was born in 1897 and has lived her entire life in the area around Muskegon, Michigan. Hogan reads the newspaper every day, expresses her opinion on world events, and continues to beat her opponents at cards. She constantly works word puzzles or plays solitaire "to keep my mind active."

She is as physically fit as her mind is sharp. She walks briskly with her wheeled walker around the assisted living complex where she resides. Hogan lived in her own home until she was 102 and worked a large garden until she was 100.

Hogan told her pastor, Brian Kyle, "Have you seen the show 'Little House on the Prairie?' The house in that show is just like the one I grew up in." She loves to share about living when horses and wagons were the main form of transportation.