Longtime Rochester resident Kathryn Elizabeth Phillips is celebrating her 100th birthday this week. Two family gatherings are planned in her honor on Saturday, April 12. Ms. Phillips, who first moved to Rochester in 1949 from a similar farming town in Ohio, described herself as a “woodchuck farmer” and said she’s always kept active and ate a well-balanced diet of fresh produce cultivated on her own farms. Among her many local relatives, she is the grandmother of Rochester Selectman Brad Morse.
