99-year-old Pella woman releases monarch butterflies with her family ...Middle East

By Alyssa Gomez Click here for updates on this story PELLA, Iowa (KCCI) — Ninety-nine-year-old Wilma Hoekstra has loved monarch butterflies since she was a young girl. “I was kind of a bug kid. We would catch little creatures and keep them in matchboxes,” Hoekstra said. When Hoekstra moved to Iowa, she began raising butterflies. As a teacher, she used them as a tool. “I just felt the monarch butterfly had such a beautiful story, such a cycle of life that we all could follow even in our own lives,” Hoekstra said. And Hoekstra said they teach a lesson in kindness, too. “Why would you destroy something so beautiful, just because it’s ugly at a point in its life,” Hoekstra

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