When the self-confessed party girl told the staff at Live Oak Adult Day Care Center her wishes, they passed on her request to Day's daughter, Dolores Nocera, but the cost of a limousine was too high.

Telma Cramer, a program director at the Willow Glen adult day care, decided to look for someone who might consider donating the limousine ride. Fortune was on Cramer's side when she saw one parked in the Second Harvest Food Bank parking lot.

David White, who owns the car, agreed to give Day a free ride from her Campbell assisted-living facility to the adult day care center in Willow Glen.

The big day arrived on July 21. White picked up Day and her daughter as planned.

"I feel like a queen," Day said over and over during the ride.

When she arrived at the center, her hunk for the day, Marques Ransom, opened the door to the limousine. Ransom, who works at the center, paid attention to her throughout the day, bringing her cake and to her delight, asking her to dance.

Dancing has been the constant in Day's life. It connects her to childhood in Mariposa County and her life in San Francisco and Salinas. So many memories have faded, she said, but she hasn't forgotten the parties.

Even her memories of Notre Dame Convent in San Francisco, the strict Catholic school she was sent to in 8th grade, included sneaking out to go to parties.

"They really gave us hell when we got back," she said.

Her father, Alexander Turner, who was sheriff of Mariposa County, indulged her. He let her go to college-age parties once she turned 18, she said.

"I danced every night except Sunday," she noted.

But the young girl had fallen in love with San Francisco and returned there in 1923 to work at a telegraph office. She lived in a boarding house and there she met Billie, a girl who became a close friend.

The two girls took summer jobs at Camp Curry in Yosemite and attend summer dances there. During one of those dances, she met Alex Day, and she remembers thinking this was the man she would marry.

The couple married after a short courtship and moved to San Francisco and were active on the social scene.

Then came the years of the Great Depression and the couple had to move to Day's father's ranch in Lompoc in central California to survive. There they brought up their two children, Dolores and Woody.

"My favorite memory was going to the beach with my parents and Woody," Nocera said.

Eventually the family moved to Salinas, where they lived for 50 years. But Alex and Lorraine did not hang up their dancing shoes and continued dancing.

When the couple retired, they used the money they had saved over the years to travel. The pair journeyed to Europe and took cruises to the Caribbean, Hawaii, the Panama Canal and Alaska.

"There was even more dancing on the cruises," Day said.

Though Day lost her leading man 15 years ago, she continued dancing whenever she could until last year, when she became too frail.

She has been a regular at the adult center for seven years, coming twice a week.