Living life to the fullest at 98...Paul Corbin

Friday, October 5, 2012

ADVANCE, Mo. - Paul Corbin was born on the banks of Cato Slough, about five miles west of Advance, Mo. on Nov. 27, 1914. That year, President Woodrow Wilson announced the U.S. entry into World War I, the "war to end all wars." The Panama Canal had just been completed, and bacon was 17 cents a pound. Electricity was yet to light homes, and most of the population traveled by horse and wagon.

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