Boone keeps fit

Lillie Boone, 85, is an Atoka County District 10 resident who works part-time at the Atoka Wellness Center and Wednesdays at the Choctaw Community Center. She loves to fish with her son Rick Moore in her spare time.

Boone caught this white buffalofish, estimated to weigh 20-30 pounds, on April 15th while fishing at Atoka Lake. She had been fishing for about an hour when she felt a few nibbles on the line and then it just took off, she said. After about 15 minutes of working to get the fish in, she was surprised to see what she had caught, thinking it would instead be a catfish.

She said, “I was very excited to catch one that big. I owe it all to the Lord and my help.”

Boone recently also walked in the Tvshka Homma Walk-A-Thon in the 85 and above age group and was the only female in her category to walk.

When asked what her advice is to others on how to keep going in their senior years, she said not to just sit around. “I go to the Wellness Center and do chair volleyball two days a week.” She said if there are any challenges at the community center, she is a part of them. “If I can do them, I’m in them. I thank the Lord for my health every day. If it weren’t for Him, I couldn’t do anything.”