An 87-year-old Athol grandmother went skydiving, and there’s video
The octogenarian's daughter claims her mom has "nerves of steel."
An 87-year-old grandmother from Athol went skydiving on Sunday, according to The Recorder. What did you do over the weekend?
Jumping out of a plane was on thrill-seeker Janis Lefebre’s bucket list, along with ice skating at Rockefeller Center in New York City and visiting Disney World, according to The Boston Globe. And she finally got to cross skydiving off, thanks to her family, who purchased the trip for the grandmother of eight as a birthday present.
“She had mentioned [that she had wanted to go skydiving] to us in passing,” Lefebre’s daughter Lori Craig told the Globe. When Lefebre turned the big 8-7 back in January, her family vowed to take her to Jumptown, a skydiving company in Orange, Massachusetts, once the weather got warmer.
The best part? Jumptown staff captured the entire thing on video.
Throughout her entire jump, Lefebre appeared calm, cool, and collected.
“She has nerves of steel,” Craig told the Globe. “It was a proud moment. It was a proud moment for us as her children. She is just a powerhouse.”
Read the full story at the Globe.
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