Nonagenarian Likes Flowers and Cooking

Sharp is the word for Mrs. Georgiana V. Leet of North Sacramento, who will reach her ninety-fifth birthday anniversary tomorrow. Despite her age, Mrs. Leet still tends to her little plot of chrysanthemums at her daughter’s home at 2885 Franklin Street; thinks nothing of whipping up a batch of baked apples, apple sauce, and apple pies in the afternoon and making an automobile trip to her summer home near Mt. Shasta every year. Mrs. Leet, who has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Hattie A. Oakley, for the last three years, was born in Nicolaus, Sutter County, in 1854. She was the first of ten children born to Judge and Mrs. John M. Algeo, Sutter County pioneers who met when their parents arrived in California during the gold rush days after trekking across the nation in prairie schooners from Ohio and North Carolina. Two of her brothers and four sisters still are living in California. They are Andrew J. Algeo of North Sacramento; Tom Algeo of Yolo; Amy C. Algeo and Oba C. Algeo, retired school teachers, both of Fresno; Mrs. Margaret Jopson of Sacramento; and Mrs. Agnes Hunt of Alameda; all are between the ages of 73 and 87. She introduces Andrew as her “kid brother.” He is 85. Besides her children, Mesdames Oakley, Mrs. William Martin of Porterville, her descendants include 10 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren, and 10 great-great-grandchildren. In 1872 Georgiana married George L. Leet of Chautangua Lake of New York, who believed in the farming and ranching possibilities of California. The young couple settled near Nicolaus. Attacks of asthma forced them to move to the more agreeable climate of Los Gatos in 1906. He died there in 1931.