BRYAN EATON/Staff Photo. Jean Tyler is applauded as she's presented a cake at her birthday party as she turns 100 years old at Atria Merrimack Place attended by family, friends and Sen. Diana DiZoglio, Rep. James Kelcourse and Mayor Donna Holaday's office. She was born in Cincinnati,, Ohio later moving to Columbus. The mother of two, she was a preschool teacher and a volunteer at a school for the blind moving to Newburyport six years ago.

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