The compassionate centenarian

She has never owned a cell phone or computer, and can’t recall when she first owned a TV, but Polly Lackey of Sallisaw recalls so much more — a candy-apple red Chevrolet convertible with white leather seats, her 74 years of marriage to her husband Charles, growing up in rural Sequoyah County, vacationing in Europe, watching her fellow Okies abandon eastern Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl for promises of California’s prosperity and even witnessing Hollywood at work when film crews descended o...