At Whataburger, some of our most fascinating customers have done a lot of living. Think eight – even nine – decades’ worth. And let’s just say bold does not equal old. These folks are exhilarating. They’re risk-taking. They’re …

When Arnold Moede turned 88, he set his driver’s license on fire. Yes, he acknowledges, he could have just thrown his license away when he decided to quit driving. “But I wanted to protest getting old,” he says. Moede and his friends, who meet …

Retired Col. Don Hilkemeier and his future wife, Adana, both found making the phone call for a first date nerve-racking. Now, after 11 years of marriage, they always kiss goodnight. Looking back, it seems like they were destined to meet. The …

Bogner Stubbs, 92, took a chance on football and a girl. Both changed his life. The year was 1948. Stubbs, a high school coach, was supervising his team at a county tournament. When referees at the event introduced him to Willidean Ayers, a coach …

Dorris McCoy isn’t taking retirement sitting down. Nearly 90, she works out at a San Antonio YMCA almost every day, and she’s set her sights on walking her third 5K race. “I exercise to make me feel good,” she says. McCoy believes in …

After his service in the U.S. Navy, Herb Gray missed the application deadline for Texas Tech University in Lubbock and instead enrolled at Trinity University in his hometown. He figured he’d transfer the following year. “But then I fell in love …

Hector Garza has met presidents and traveled the globe – all thanks to tamales. Born and raised in San Antonio, Garza took what he learned as a child working in his mother's tamale business and applied it to building a successful career in …

Note: Thelma Holland, a woman who lived life with confidence, flair and passion, passed away in May 2018 at the age of 93. “Our fun, beautiful, shining matriarch has gone to be with God,” says her granddaughter Anya J. Holland. “She was a …