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Fletcher
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there’s only one secret to longevity: character.
If you ask her, she credits her family. Others have made it into their 90s, she says, but none as far as she.
Her father was Aylette Hawes Buckner and her mother “a Burt from Talladega.” She grew up “a mile up in the mountains” outside Sperryville as “a real mountaineer” in “an old stone house.”
Going back a few years from then, she counts as direct ancestors Charles Washington, George’s brother. Her greatgrandfather married Martha Dandridge, President Washington’s grand-niece.
As a girl she attended private schools, including one in Front Royal. Pressed for the name of the “academy” in Front Royal; Mrs. Fletcher demonstrates her legendary sense of humor. “I don’t know what it was called. You might find someone who kept better records but I don’t know if you’ll find anyone much older.”
She was married at age 21 to Judge William Meade Fletcher, a U.Va. Law School graduate who
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