98-Year-Old Grandma Outtravels Millennials Despite Neck Pain and 8th-Grade Education
KEY POINTS
- •In 2019, Stephanie Mork often talked with her 98-year-old Grandma Lenora, who was enduring stubborn neck pain in Minnesota.
- •Lenora lost a daughter, cared for a husband after a farming accident, and traveled internationally with him despite his mobility challenges.
- •She now resides in a senior living co-op, is famous for her sugar cookies, attends exercise classes, and promotes gratitude and faith.
Meet Grandma Lenora, the 98-year-old original travel influencer who posed in Italy during the 1980s, long before Instagram existed. She survived losing a daughter to preterm birth, her farmer husband’s lifelong mobility issues from an accident, and finally widowhood after 50+ years of marriage. Refusing to get grumpy over neck pain in 2019, she declared 'It is what it is'—a motto sturdy enough to hold up a thriving farming business funded on just an 8th-grade education. Into her senior-co-op years, she became the sugar cookie legend while jetting off to Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands, all while having zero social media followers but infinite charm. Blessed by faith and practically peeling applesauce for posterity, she taught her granddaughter a thing or two about aging gracefully and how to not lose your marbles while losing everything else.
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This grandma’s got more frequent flyer miles and a brighter outlook than your over-caffeinated 28-year-old with posture issues. Neck pain? Try 98 years of unfiltered life ‘It is what it is’ style.
She’s the only influencer who traveled the world before Wi-Fi and still didn’t post a single humblebrag.
Out here turning 98, suffering neck pain, yet schooling us all on gratitude and cookie diplomacy.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 1/12/2026 | Author: Stephanie Mork
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