A Hendrickson farmer will celebrate his 90th birthday Thursday.
George Poston’s family is planning to have a cake and a small gathering at their farm in northern Butler County and are inviting neighbors, said son Chris Poston, who lives near his father,
The family have been Butler County residents since 1961. They moved from an 80-acre farm on M Highway to 100 acres at Hendrickson in the early 1970s.
The elder Poston served in the U.S. Army during the Korean and Vietnam wars.
Chris Poston recalls “when we moved out here, the gravel road wasn’t a county road then. Back then it was just a little bitty gravel road. Sometimes you couldn’t get through it. The only time anybody would come through the week is the mailman. Most likely there’d be a couple of people drive through but it wasn’t like it is today. Today it’s almost a superhighway out there.”
The Poston family has constructed buildings, barns, raised cattle, and are growing hay on the land.
The elder Poston is a farmer, who “used to have cows and now we just do a little bit of hay,” Chris Poston said. While he doesn’t work too much, he enjoys running the tractor around.
Chris Poston describes his father as “a pillar of the community,” who “is really, really active.”
George Poston’s two surviving children are Chris and Warren, who lives in Freeport, Florida. He has four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.