Sometimes we never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

When that happens, Majorie Hogan is there to capture it.

“She’s our memory-keeper,” says Diana Hogan proudly about her mother-in-law.

“She usually can figure-out (historical family questions), and give us the answer.”

For Marjorie, it’s a hobby she’s enjoyed over her lifetime of 100 years.

Born in Joyceville on Aug. 23, 1915, Marjorie is the middle child in a family of seven.

At three years old, she moved to a farmhouse in Amherstview; a friendly community perched on the shore of Lake Ontario.

Sitting comfortably in her room at Helen Henderson Retirement Lodge in Amherstview where she has lived for more than 10 years, Marjorie is modest about the wonders she’s witnessed over the last century.

She smiles when she talks about the time she spent in Timmins with her husband, Howard, while he mined for gold.

“I know all about gold mining,” she says with a laugh.

Returning to Amherstview five years later, Howard built the family home and worked in the Kingston shipyards as a welder at the locomotive plant.

“It was a different world that she grew-up in,” says Richard Hogan with fondness about his mother who was married for 66 years until Howard Hogan’s death in 2004.

Marjorie is proud of her tightknit family that includes two adult grandsons.

Well respected in the community, the family was publicly honoured by the late Judge William Henderson with the naming of the street: Hogan Crescent.

A small celebration was held in August 2015 to mark Marjorie’s 100th birthday.

It was a moment in time captured in the Hogan book of family memories.