Florence Lacombe heads out to lunch Tuesday in downtown Lewiston. “I don’t eat out too much. But I was out today so I figured I would treat myself,” said Lacombe, who said she is “94 and two months.” Lacombe was born in Lewiston and worked 46 years for three different mills. “I’m going to have what my doctor does not want me to have,” she said. “A nice hamburger.” Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Rosary beads hang from Florence Lacombe’s walker Tuesday in Lewiston. Lacombe was a parishioner at St. Patrick’s Church in Lewiston for more than 50 years before the downtown church closed. She now attends the Basilica of Saints Peter & Paul, but mostly by Zoom, said the 94-year-old downtown resident. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Florence Lacombe heads out to lunch Tuesday in downtown Lewiston. “I don’t eat out too much. But I was out today so I figured I would treat myself,” said Lacombe, who said she is “94 and two months.” Lacombe was born in Lewiston and worked 46 years for three different mills. “I’m going to have what my doctor does not want me to have,” she said. “A nice hamburger.” Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

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