This was the prescription for a long life by former Powell resident Edna Scott when she turned 100 years old seven years ago:

“Stay active and get outdoors in the fresh air,” she advised at the time in an interview with Tessa Baker of the Powell Tribune. She added that it’s also good to eat wild meat.

Those words to live by have carried Edna Scott past her 107th birthday. She turned 107 on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 24) and now lives in Bridger, Montana. The Carbon County News of Red Lodge, Montana, said Edna is “spry and lively” and takes her landmark 107th in stride: “Yep, that’s getting up there,” she was quoted in the newspaper.

Scott was born to John and Iris Harris on Nov. 24, 1915, at Melstone, Montana. She milked cows on the family farm “and was outside more than inside,” during her growing up years, she said on her 100th birthday.

She went to beauty school after high school and starting doing hair at a shop in Bridger. At a dance one night in the early 1940s, she met Walt Scott of Powell who was serving in the U.S. Army. They were married on Christmas Day in 1943, before Walt shipped out to serve two and a half years overseas in World War II.

After the war, the couple made its home in Powell where Walt operated Scott’s Plumbing and Heating with his dad and brothers. The couple enjoyed more than 50 years together before Walt’s death in the mid-1990s. Walt and Edna were active in the Shoshone Rock Club of Powell for many years.

She told friends at age 104 that she has never been hospitalized. “I stay away from doctors, hospitals and drugs,” she confided then.

— Dave Bonner