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Grandmother spends Mother's Day skydiving

Posted : Mon, 14 May 2007 05:34:01 GMT
Author : General News Editor
Category : US (World)
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FLORA, Ind., May 14 A 79-year-old Michigan woman celebrated Mother's Day by free falling out of an airplane.

The Kalamazoo (Mich.) Gazette reported on Sylvia DeVries, grandmother of 10 and great-grandmother of two, who chose to skydive as a dual celebration of Mother's Day and her 80th birthday on May 22.

DeVries told the Gazette that at first she was concerned about not doing everything right, but after a while she was able to enjoy the birds-eye view of the Indiana countryside.

The idea reportedly came to DeVries a few months ago when she was talking to her daughter-in-law about how she wanted to get the whole family together.

"I said, 'If I could get the whole family together, I'd jump out of an airplane,' having no idea it would be done," she said. Afterward, her son reportedly called her bluff and found a skydiving facility in Flora, Ind. DeVries's son told the Gazette his mother had always been a little eccentric.

Copyright 2007 by UPI

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