A 91-year-old Pennsylvania woman who almost became a nun has a family that boasts 126 descendants, with five more on the way, ABC News reported.
Peggy Koller, who was born an only child, wanted to join a convent but changed her mind when she fell in love with and married her husband in 1942. Seven decades and 11 children later, Koller's family is 126 relatives strong, including 56 grandchildren and 59 great-grandchildren.
With five more grandchildren around the corner, Koller can hardly keep up with all of the descendants she has now.
"I have two graduations coming up. I had another one from Villanova last week. Last Saturday, I had a wedding in North Jersey and on Sunday my daughter gave a shower for her daughter-in-law," Koller, of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, told ABC News. "That's the way it goes."
Koller originally wanted to have 12 children with her husband, William Koller, but stopped at 11. All of her children are still alive, and with the exception of one, all still live in the Philadelphia area where they grew up.
"She is definitely an inspiration," Lauren Naldzin, one of Koller's granddaughters, told ABC News. "She was working while running the family and she was the only child who created this family with my grandfather."
The 91-year-old keeps herself active by exercising daily. She also still drives and lives on her own in a retirement community. Koller even has her own iPhone, but needs her grandchildren to help her text and send emails.
Naldzin said the family's main concern about their independent matriarch is making sure she attends all of the family functions, ABC News reported.
"It's like as soon as you have a date, as soon as a graduation day is published on the school website, you tell her," Naldzin told the station. "Last year, there were two family weddings on the same day and we got her to both of them."
Koller, who together with her husband started the Koller Funeral Home, believes she is still alive because of her and her husband's faith in God. Her husband passed way in 2008.
"I think that just helped because we figured we were doing the will of God and he would look out for us, and he did," Koller said.