Mid-Valley man's 100 years of memories include looting Hitler's house | StatesmanJournal.com | Statesman Journal: "Of course, he never thought he would make it to the century mark, either.
'I didn't think I'd ever get half that old, but I did.'
Beitel was born May 9, 1909, on the family farm in South Salem. He pinpoints the location by referencing a story we published the day I visited — the newspaper is on his couch — about the red dirt from Jory Hill that is being considered as Oregon's official state soil. The Beitels and the Jorys were neighbors.
Tony Beitel was the third of seven children. A brother and a sister, both in their 90s, are still living.
He became a farmer, like his father, and then a skilled sheep shearer.
'I used to sheer about 7,000 a year, so I know how to shear sheep,' he says. 'I did it all over the country.'"
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