Alice Lloyd remembers some winters in North Dakota and Minnesota so severe the family had to tie a rope between the house and the barn to keep from getting lost in snowstorms and eking out a living during the Depression years as turkey and wheat farmers.

Now a resident in Sequim’s supremely mild climate, Lloyd celebrated her 100th birthday this week.

Born Sept. 20, 1916, in Madison, Wis. — Woodrow Wilson was president at the time — she says living in the cold climates with sister Edna and brother Leo made her so tough. She rode a horse to school, as many youths did there and then, letting them graze while they were in class.

When Lloyd was 20, the family moved to The Dalles, Ore., where she worked at a tuberculosis center. The family then moved to Astoria, Ore., where she met her husband, Fred Lloyd, a United States Marine at that time. They married just before World War II and Fred was shipped out to serve in the South Pacific, just months after their marriage. Their first son, Fred Jr., was born in 1942; their second, John, was born in 1946.

After Fred got out of the service, the couple bought a 40-acre farm in Astoria where they raised mink for more than 20 years. Besides helping run the farm, she worked as a custom fish filleter at a local fish cannery. She also was active in the Grange and a member of Eastern Star. They then moved to Warrenton, Ore., where they were Grange insurance agents. They also became avid rock hounds, gold panners and enjoyed traveling throughout the west in their Airstream.

They helped create the town of Desert Center, Calif. — near Palm Springs — which began as a group of Airstreamers who eventually put down permanent roots.

Besides being an avid gardener, Lloyd was an accomplished artist in oil painting, ceramics, sewing (she sewed most of her own clothes and those of her family), and she even did some pine needle basket weaving.

The couple moved to Sequim in 1998 to be closer to their son, John. Fred died in 2001 and Alice Lloyd continued to live in their home, independently, until she was 98. That year she endured broken bones and multiple surgeries after a fall.

She now lives at Sinclair Place, where family members say she plays a mean hand of rummy and enjoys bingo. She is also a big Mariners fan.

Her family includes her son John and daughter-in-law Ellen Lloyd, daughter-in-law Harlene Lloyd, two granddaughters and their husbands, and three great-grandchildren.