When Lottie Lou Penny was two years old, a horse stepped on her head.

“The horse ran over me and scared Papa so badly, he jumped on the horse and ran down the road telling the kids ‘Lottie’s dead, Lottie’s dead,’ without ever stopping to see if I was dead,” recalls Lottie, who will turn 100 years old on Feb. 3. “Then he turned around and started back and all the commotion began.”

Knocked unconscious by the horse’s hooves, Lottie’s family revived her with wet towels.

“We didn’t have any ice at the time,” she said, “so Papa went to town to get some.”

A resident of Glenhaven Retirement Village since June, 2008, Lottie, smartly dressed in a white print blouse and a burgundy sweater vest with fresh nail polish to match, smiles and speaks to fellow residents and Glenhaven staff members as they pass by.

“It took her a while to get used to the place,” said Lottie’s granddaughter Virginia Savage, a psychotherapist in Oklahoma City. But while Lottie may be used to Glenhaven, not surprisingly, she’d rather just go home.

The second youngest of six children born to Rosa Fernetta Hardy Penny and Oliver Alonzo Penny, Lottie had three brothers, Ernest, Owen and Omer and two sisters Ovaline and Beaulous.

Born in the small community of Cloud Chief on Feb. 3, 1909, Lottie later moved with her family to Byars, Okla. where her mother “worked in a grocery store now and then” and worked at a weigh station as well, while her father “farmed mostly” and worked in conservation, planting trees.

She attended Friend School where she met her future husband, Howard Slusher. The couple married in 1929 and had two children, a girl and a boy.

Today, Lottie has four grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Granddaughter Virginia, lives in Lottie’s home in Chickasha and cares for her dog Ollie, a Chihuahua and Dachshund mix whom Savage brings to Glenhaven occasionally to visit with her grandmother.

“He seems to be doing all right,” says Lottie, despite the fact that Ollie has slimmed down because he no longer gets table scraps.

While Ollie now enjoys having his own bed near the heater, he used to share Lottie’s bed instead.

“He slept with me every night when I had him,” says Lottie. “I’m not ashamed of it.”

But Ollie is not the first dog in Lottie’s life. In fact, she has had a number of pets over her lifetime.

“We had a lot more pets than usual.”

In addition to the usual dogs and barn cats, Lottie also had a pig named Stubby.

“I’ve had a pet pig with three legs,” she said. “Papa ran over our pig and we kept him as a pet.”

Another favorite pet was Rover, a special dog who survived being struck by a train, suffering a broken jaw.

“We kept him in the outhouse in a box of straw,” Lottie recalls. “We fed him milk, bread and water with a spoon. He did real good.”

Lottie is a member of the First Christian Church where her late husband Howard used to adjust the sound system during services so the congregation could better hear the sermons.