An Iowa man celebrated his 105th birthday Saturday with his family at Good Samaritan Center nursing home in Villisca.

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John Baker still enjoys spending time with family -- including nine grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, his son, Larry Baker, told the Des Moines (Iowa) Register.

The elder Baker is hard of hearing but can still deliver a flow of detailed memories of a childhood spent ice-skating on local rivers and ponds. Later he made his living as a farmer and running a combine.

He still lived at home until few years ago and shot his last deer at age 92, the newspaper said.

As a child, his family celebrated Christmas with up to 80 family members, Baker said.

"It was a lot of work for the women and the men all had big arguments on everything from soup to politics," he said. "We kids had to wait for our dinners while they argued, and we thought we were going to starve to death."