This photo shows the legendary Amelia Shenasky Zentz, the blonde bombshell daughter of P.P. Shenasky and Nell Shenasky, with Susan Staron Sanders, whose Charge of the Light Brigade will have 20 Christmas street lights in Monongah before the end of the year, and Mary “Kitty” Ahouse Morrison, whose parties and travels are, well, legendary.

All together at Amelia’s home on Shenasky Lane in Monongah.

Amelia is 96 years old but her mind is about 50 years younger, judging by her memory. As a young woman she was invited to New York City for ballroom dancing with celebrities.

Kitty and Bertha Wilson each stay with Amelia a few nights a week.

As Kitty says: “She is indeed an amazing woman and a joy to be around.”

Amelia and her late husband, Bruce Zentz, built the Dairy Kone in 1968, after Amelia learned about business from her parents at the P.P. Shenasky Grocery on U.S. 19 next door to Thoburn School.

Susan and Kitty paid Amelia a visit. Oh, to be a fly on the wall in that house at that time!

Kitty, Class of 1968, lives on Lyndon Avenue in Monongah but is equally at home in New York City, Key West, Myrtle Beach or elsewhere in the world.

Or, as you can tell from the shirt she's wearing, just back from the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.

With or without her sister, Sue Ahouse Schrader, Class of 1971, who lives in Piscataway, New Jersey and Stoney Lonesome when she isn’t partying or traveling with sister Kitty or running the half-marathon in Chicago.

Susan Sanders, Class of 1971, is the angel of Thomas Street whose fundraising keeps adding Christmas street lights to her own.

Susan and husband Ron Sanders live on Thomas Street, next door to Mayor Greg Vandetta and his wife, Janice Manzo Vandetta.