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Lena Domingues Elliott celebrated her 100th birthday in Hawaii.

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The multi-generational photo is of Lean, Janis Hawk (daughter), Matt Hawk (grandson) and Arthur Hawk (great grandson).

Turning 100 in Hawaii: Lena Domingues Elliot celebrated her 100th birthday with her five kids

Last week Lena Domingues Elliott celebrated her 100th birthday in Kula, Hawaii with her five children, Judy, Karen, Janis, Steve (VC class of 1971) and Joseph (VC class of 1981), daughter in law Margaret Elliott, grandchildren Gavin Elliott, Matt Hawk and Lauren Hawk.
Also present were Matt’s wife Carmela and their newborn son Arthur, and Lauren’s fiancé Michael Giuliana. Yet to arrive to celebrate are granddaughter Alexandra Wagner and wife Danielle Pershing and their daughter Josephine.
Lena was born on May 17, 1921 to Lucille Goulas Domingues and Joseph Alcibiades Domingues.
Lena graduated from Southwestern Louisiana Institute and shortly after graduation, met her husband James Leroy Elliott on a vacation at Lake Arrowhead in Southern California.
After they married, they moved to Schenectady, NY, where James began his career as an Electrical Engineer at General Electric.
Soon they moved to Southern California where they settled and raised their children.
In 1970 they returned to Louisiana, along with sons Steve and Joseph, where they built a home on Vermillion River.
They spent the next 20 years living in Abbeville where James founded an engineering firm that focused on electrical design for the oil industry, and Lena taught at Abbeville Elementary School.
After retirement, they built a home in Colorado where they lived until James passed away in 1995. In Colorado, Lena took up and excelled at painting, creating southwestern landscapes and portraits of her grandchildren. Her paintings still grace the walls of her children’s homes. After James’ death, Lena relocated to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1996 where she lived with her daughters Judy, Janis and Karen.
In 2017 Lena and her daughters moved to Kula Hawaii on the island of Maui, joining her son Steve who moved there in 2015.
Lena enjoys her life in Hawaii, and she still contributes in cooking dinner from time to time, sharing her Cajun cooking skills with family and friends. She attends mass at Holy Ghost Church in Kula. Most of all she is happy to be surrounded by her children, and after a year of caution due to her advanced age and COVID-19, she can give and receive hugs once again.

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