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Meet the 102-year-old Oregon woman who has been teaching swim classes for over five decades — and doesn't plan on slowing down anytime soon!
Peggy Konzack is known throughout Roseburg for teaching several generations of babies how to swim at the YMCA of Douglas County. This was not the route she expected her life to take, however.
The stay-at-home mom of two was originally studying to be a hairstylist when she was approached about the job, Marisa Fink, executive director of the Oregon Alliance of YMCAs, tells PEOPLE.
“I often said that I will keep teaching and swimming until they can wheel me in a wheelchair and dump me in the water,” she jokes.
Peggy was born in Los Angeles on June 5, 1921, Fink says. She later moved to Butte, Mont., where she met her husband while the then-teens attended a 7th Day Adventists Youth camp.
In 1945, the couple moved to Roseburg, where they became “very active” within their church, Fink says. They were married for 79 years before Peggy’s husband died at age 100 in 2021.
102-Year-Old Woman Still Teaching Babies to Swim After More Than 50 Years: ‘It Makes Me Happy'
Meet the 102-year-old Oregon woman who is still teaching swim classes over five decades after she suddenly and unexpectedly took over the job
