Bigfork resident turns 100

Maggie Pontius celebrated her 100th birthday last week in grand style.

Surrounded by friends and family, Pontius enjoyed a pot luck lunch at the Bigfork Community Center (former the Bigfork Senior Center), and then was treated to a hand massage by members of the Bigfork Soroptimists.

Pontius’ roots go far back in Bigfork. She helped start the first library in Bigfork in 1972 and she was also a founder of the same community center that she celebrated her birthday in. She turned 100 on April 5.

Pontius’ daughter, Luella Dixon, of Ferndale, and granddaughter Christina Wiltfong of Bigfork celebrated with about about 30 other people at the community center, while scents of organic hand oils permeated the rooms.