GRAND FORKS (AP) - Mary Schumacher knows a lot about living.

"Life is what you make it," the 108-year-old says.

Schumacher, who lives at a home for seniors here, doesn't worry about the war in Iraq or the threat of global warming. She thinks more about the days of World War I, when she and her husband, Fred, were married. And she remembers her girlhood on a farm near Reynolds, south of Grand Forks.

She believes her longevity has something to do with eating good food, working hard and worshipping God. She believes in walking stairs whenever possible.

"I still can see, but it's cloudy, she said. "And I can hear, but it's very dim." She shrugs her shoulders and laughs as she says, "Life is what you make it."

She lives at the St. Anne's Guest Home, where she enjoys remembering things past. She attends church there daily and watches a TV game show in the evening.

She does her own laundry and goes to bed early.

Mary and her twin brother, Joe, were the youngest of 12 children born to Joe and Mary Ackerman on Aug. 29, 1898. Joe died when he was very young.

She remembers delivering milk to homes in Reynolds, having to tie up the wagon's horses at every stop.

"It was a bother," she said.

Her wedding was so long ago that she has forgotten the details. But she remembers that it was a triple wedding at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Reynolds.

The couple had four children: Lewis, who died young, and a twin sister, Lucille Rohman, who lives in Washington state; and a son, Donald Schumacher, and a daughter, Geraldine Linneman, who both live in Grand Forks.