Knight keeps the staff in line at Southland. She momentarily kept a serious

face and said, "I make them mind me all the time." Then she broke out in her

shy smile letting everyone know she wasn't being too serious.

Angie Brown, Southland Activity Director, noted, "She has a very outgoing

personality and loves to joke and cut up with the staff. But at times she

can be real shy."

Knight takes part in most of the activities at Southland. She likes Bible

study, arts and crafts, birthday parties, children's programs and pet

therapy. Knight is a cat lover and misses her cats.

Knight has participated in the Southland Beauty Pageant for the past two

years, and was a runner up in the 1999 contest. She is a Braves baseball fan

and did the "Dirty Bird" for the audience at the recent pageant.

She also enjoys going on shopping trips with others from Southland. She

smiled and said, "When they give me some money, I go shopping."

Asked about her life she quipped, "I run my mouth too much, but I've never

really done anything bad in my life or I wouldn't be here now."

She married Erskine Knight at the age of 13. He was also 13. The couple were

married for 66 years and had three sons, Lewis, Emerson and Charlie, and a

daughter, Lillian Moss. All of her children currently live in the Atlanta

area. She says she has "about 30 grandchildren." When asked how many

great-grandchildren she had she raised her eyes to the ceiling and said, "Oh

my lord, I can't count them." She has sixty great-grandchildren, five

great-great-grandchildren and three great-great-great-grandchildren.

Knight worked as a cook, cleaned a doctor's house and was a care-giver in

the Whitesville area. She was a member of the Rose Chapel United Methodist

Church and has "always been a Methodist."

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