106-year-old Oklahoman talks about poker, wagons
RALSTON — Ruben Hopper figures time has treated him as well as the Oklahoma soil.
At 106, he uses a walker to come out on his porch in this small Pawnee County community and oversees the work in his truck garden, done by his 79-year-old son, Bob.
The five-acre patch is a monument to Ruben Hopper’s entire life as a farmer, and his philosophy about health and down-to-earth contentment.
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