Meet Mazie Ford. At 111.5 years old, she is the oldest resident in Broward County, and the second-oldest in Florida.

She still lives in her Hallandale Beach condo after first becoming a snowbird there in the late 1960s.

She always wears a blonde wig, some blue eyeshadow and a pink blouse with a butterfly broach. She likes to tell people they will never catch her without her pink lipstick on.

She's the oldest verified supercentenarian in Broward County, someone who is older than 110 years old.

Mazie Ford was born on June 28, 1906. Amazingly, she still has the energy to sit and have nearly three-hour conversations, especially if they involve some of her favorite topics, like the TV show "Dancing with the Stars."

"I enjoy every bit of what I’m doing"- Mazie Ford

"Does he look familiar? Here he is!” Mazie exclaims.

She jumps up and grabs her walker to move quickly across her condo to show off her prized picture of dancing star Derek Hough, with his arm around her, on her 109th birthday.

She doesn’t spend a lot of time focusing on the past.

Like many South Floridians, Mazie would leave her northern home in Philadelphia to spend winters at the beach. She used to come with her first husband, Harry.

Her daughter, Johann Levinson, called her mother in Philly one day in 1967. She asked her mom to spend the winter at a then-new development called The Hemispheres. Johann remembers Mazie passed the phone to her dad.

Credit Caitie Switalski / WLRN / WLRN Johann Levinson (left), helps her mom, Mazie, (right), put on her signature pink lipstick.

“She said he wouldn’t say no to me and that’s how they got their first apartment in this building,” Johann said.

Mazie still lives in the same condo, independently, though a nurse helps her now.

Independence has always been important to her. She got married in the early 1920s - shortly after women got the right to vote. She was 16 years old.

“Oh, when my husband asked me to marry him, I said, ‘only if you buy me a car,' ” Mazie said.

By the time Mazie moved to Hallandale Beach permanently, she was a widow who had just remarried.

“I played a lot of golf, I played a lot of bridge and I had my own car,” Mazie said, fondly.

Though she can’t play golf anymore, she still loves her bridge and mah jongg.

Daughter Johann comes over almost every day. The good genes run in the family, Johann turned 90 at the end of November 2017.

“She was always a sharp lady, an excellent bridge player, a terrific mah jongg player,” Johann said about her mom.

Mazie’s best friend now is Marla Oxenhandler. She often comes to visit too. There are 51 years between Mazie and Marla.

“It’s just like talking to someone my own age,” Marla said.

And Mazie agrees there’s plenty to keep up with.

“Oh we talk about families - and I’m interested in her family,” she said.

Marla’s grown kids live in Philadelphia, and Mazie loves hearing stories about the place where she grew up and what it’s like now.

Mazie has always been artistic. And, she’s kept that up. For her 100th birthday, as a party favor for her guests, she made small wire butterflies with hundreds of tiny pink beads. By hand.

Credit Caitie Switalski / WLRN / WLRN Mazie hand-made pink-beaded butterflies like this one for her guests at her 100th birthday party. The whole butterfly is about two inches tall.

When she got bored with beading, she moved on to knitting. She started with blanket squares for the non-profit, Warm Up America.

Now she’s been knitting and delivering hats for newborn babies at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, every month. It’s the only time she leaves her condo these days.

The hats are how she and Marla met. Marla used to work for Memorial Regional.

“She used to just bring them and drop them off at security and it didn’t make her feel that good because she didn’t see where they were going,” Marla remembered.

So, Marla started taking Mazie to visit the families who received her hats.

Mazie showed off a pink, yellow and green hat, with a big yellow pom pom on top. She fills them with tissue paper so the hats keep their form.

Credit Caitie Switalski / WLRN / WLRN Mazie stuffs the hats she knits for newborns with tissue paper, so they look pretty when she delivers them to Hollywood families at Memorial Regional Hospital.

“I try to invent combinations,” she said. “I think this is pretty. I enjoy every bit of what I’m doing.”

Daughter Johann helps knit the hats, but not as many as her mom though.

“It keeps her interested. It keeps her mind active,” Johann said. “It gets her out with people so she’s not just confined to the apartment all the time. These things have kept her going, I hope it keeps me going.”

Mazie and her 90-year-old daughter used to knit at least 50 hats a month ... but they’ve slowed down a little. Mazie said, she can't work as fast as she used to.

“Can you imagine she doesn’t work as fast at a 111.5?” Marla said.

Mazie Ford is already planning ahead for her 112th birthday dinner at the restaurant in her condo complex.