Keep moving and eat cake every day, Queens great-grandmother says. Story by Elle McLogan • 2d. NEW YORK — A great-grandmother in Queens is in the prime of her life, turning 103 years young Friday.

After she moved to Queens, she went to work at a knitting mill. Now, she is caretaker for her daughter Erna, who is 20 years younger and living with dementia. "She is very cool," Erna Petsche said.