“We’re just really lucky to be able to celebrate with him and we’re so blessed to have him.”

These days, Sisler said he is keeping busy reading; currently he has about three books on the go.

He also enjoys Sudoku puzzles.

Sisler still lives independently in his own home, and his family drops in to check on him daily and provide meals.

“I was getting Meals on Wheels but that closed because of the virus,” Sisler said, and added that he was grateful for his family.

Sisler has lived through everything from the SARS epidemic to the Spanish Flu and has come through all of it.

“I was about three years old when I lived through that pandemic, and neither my parents or I got it,” he said.

Sisler, who is one of Canada’s oldest surviving Second World War veterans, enlisted in the Armed Forces on Nov. 3, 1943 and served with the Royal Canadian Legion Horse Artillery.

Sisler was later transferred to the Royal Canadian Electrical Mechanical Engineers until he was discharged in November 1946.

He was trained as a communications mechanic and one of the pieces of equipment he said he worked on was radar, which was new technology at the time.

Sisler moved to Fort Erie after the war and started his own television and radio repair shop with another serviceman.

He repaired TVs and radios for more than a decade until he started a career in customs at the Peace Bridge.

Sisler retired in 1979 and stayed active in the community. Until recently, Sisler enjoyed bowling as often as possible at the local bowling alley, formerly known Carroll’s Bowling Lanes. He has also been a member of Royal Canadian Legion branch 71 for several decades.

Sisler was married to his loving wife Mae and they have five children; Norm, Betti, Sharon, Lorraine and Burdett. He also has 11 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and nine great-great grandchildren, many of whom came to wish him well on his birthday.