Robert "Ott" Bell's daily routine, like many people's, includes his favorite TV shows -- "The Price Is Right" (he still misses Bob Barker), "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy." Unlike most people, he does plenty in between, despite just turning 100 years old.

He was born on Jan. 20, 1910, in North Huntingdon, one of Thomas and Kate (Gongeware) Bell's four children. He graduated from Irwin High School and worked at his father's ice cream parlor. He met Mae Elizabeth Errett at a roller skating rink (it was love at first sight). When he was 18 and she was 16, they eloped to Kittanning and married on Dec. 12, 1928.

"You made your bed. Now you may go lay in it," their parents told them when they returned.

During the Depression, Mr. Bell had many jobs, including driving a coal truck, cutting and selling Christmas trees, raising chickens, helping his in-laws run the Cozy Inn on Route 30, and working in Pittsburgh steel mills. Mr. and Mrs. Bell had two children: Constant Krepps (deceased) and Joan Bell Hargrove of St. Petersburg, Fla.

In night school, he studied mechanical drafting/engineering and then landed a job at Ford Motor Co. in Pittsburgh. He retired in 1970 as plant manager for General Tire & Rubber Co. in Jeannette. He is a 32nd-degree Mason who loved to golf and hunt pheasant. From 1971 to 1990, the Bells lived in Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte, Fla., traveling extensively in an Airstream trailer. The couple square danced three or four nights a week, wearing matching outfits Mrs. Bell made for them.

Mr. Bell plays pinochle and bingo at Oak Manor Senior Living Center in Largo, Fla., where he moved in 1990. Mrs. Bell died in 2005 after 77 years of marriage.

For the week leading up to his 100th birthday, Mr. Bell spent time with members of family from across the country. Then, on Jan. 17, he celebrated with fellow residents and family from Florida, Georgia, Colorado and California.

He has five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and a glass or two of white wine daily.

"It makes my throat feel better," he says.

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