What This 98-Year-Old Lubbock Bowler Can Teach Us About Getting Older - kkam.com

She averages scores in the 130s with her women's league, a number good enough to make her younger teammates jealous, according to the writer's mother, who bowls alongside her. June turns 99 in May.

June spent her career as a kindergarten teacher before retiring. She grew up in Washington state and moved to Lubbock five years ago, where she now lives at Carillon House. Bowling has stuck with her through all of it.

For the women who bowl next to her, June is proof that showing up matters more than slowing down. Her teammates talk about her the way people talk about someone who refuses to let a number define what she can still do. She's become the person other bowlers in the city point to and say, look, she's still doing it.

June isn't chasing perfect games or records. She's just lacing up, picking up a heavy ball, and rolling it down the lane like she has for most of her life, one frame at a time, one week at a time, closing in on 99.