Lake Country Faces: Meet Pine River’s two Florences who both are 102 years old – Pine and Lakes Echo Journal

PINE RIVER — Pine River is home to many unique and interesting personalities. There are inventors dabbling in cold fusion theory, renowned blacksmiths, authors, painters and more. They all have stories.

Riverside Assisted Living in Pine River is full of storied individuals as well. Among them is not one, but two 102-year-old women named Florence.

Florence Ronnenberg and Florence Carlson may share an age and name and grace the same living facility, but they have their own personal, unique stories and personalities.

Ronnenberg has fewer stories, but no less zest for life. She was born in December in Winona, a place where she says there wasn’t much to do.

“It was OK,” Ronnenberg said. “I didn’t mind living there. It was just…