Trying to recall her earliest memory wasn’t so easy for Lillian Roberts.
After all, she had little moment’s notice to pull 100 years of recollections from her memory.
Roberts was sitting on a small sofa inside a local tea house with her daughter Carol Dinges, daughter-in-law Sheryle Roberts, and friends Lynden Brown and Jane Lesperance. They were gathered together to celebrate the centenarian’s birthday.

Roberts was born Aug. 28,…