Editor’s note: Senior Saturday is a weekly feature that provides a look at area senior citizens, their accomplishments and their life experiences. Senior Saturday prospects are asked to fill out a questionnaire concerning their lives.

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This week’s Fifty Plus takes a look at Judith I. Husebo, a retired teacher.

Where are you from originally?

Butler, Mo.

When did you move here? Why?

We came here to be nearer to my daughter and family in New York.

To what clubs/church do you belong?

Grace Martin Harwell Senior Center, Moms & Pops (at Mother of Mercy Catholic Church) and the Lutheran church in Washington.

Education (list schools, starting with high school)

Rich Hill High School (Missouri), Fort Scott Community College (Kansas) and Missouri Southern State College, now Missouri Southern State University. (Joplin, Mo.)

If you weren’t doing what you are doing now, what would you be doing?

I enjoy being with my grandchildren (10), cooking and canning, quilting and photography.

If you have a million dollars, what would you do with it?

I would operate a “safe house” for women and children (at-risk), and I would tutor (the) underprivileged.

What is the thing most people don’t know about you?

My husband Jim fainted (out cold) twice during our wedding.

What is your favorite food?

Almost anything healthy!

What’s the last book you read?

“First Family” by David Baldacci.

What is your favorite TV show?

“The Dr. Oz Show” and PBS history shows.

Where would you go on your dream vacation?

Yellowstone National Park and Niagara Falls.

What is your pet peeve?

People who screen their cellphone calls. Don’t avoid people — be honest.

What’s the best advice you ever received and who gave it to you?

“You must learn what makes you happy.” When you know that, you can live happy with another human. My grandma, Emma Moore.

What’s the biggest difference between life as a senior as opposed to below age 30?

Before age 30, I tried to please and give all to others; once I learned to please myself, then I did a better job of pleasing others. “Know thyself, love thyself; to thine ownself be true.” (Socrates, William Shakespeare and R.W. Emerson.) Also, “God is watching.”

Compiled by Mike Voss