Pauline “Polly” Kenick has seen both world wars, the discovery of Penicillin, the invention of the pop-up toaster and Sunday she saw her 100th birthday.

Always punctual, Kenick walked proudly into the Milford Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall on Sunday promptly at 1 p.m. and wore a big smile as she hugged family and friends who had come to celebrate.

“I feel good,” she said at her party Sunday. “It’s nice to see everyone here.”

With her, Kenick carried a brown teddy bear she named “Ted”, which had weathered the years nearly as well as she had.

“He’s celebrating a birthday too, you know,” she said. “He’s 94 years old.”

Kenick, who was born Pauline Luellen Fifield on Nov. 26, 1909, in Hudson, received the teddy bear shortly after she moved to Nashua with her family in 1915. Kenick learned to knit and crochet at an early age, and it continued to be an important part of her life as she knit many garments for dolls and family members and U.S. soldiers.

Kenick attended Nashua Junior High School, where she met Stella Klimas, who she would stay friends with for more than 80 years. Klimas’s daughter, Gertrude DeCrescenzo, attended Sunday’s party. DeCrescenzo said she has early memories of walking down Broad Street in Nashua with her mother to visit Kenick.

“They were friends forever,” she said. “My mother just passed away, and she was 98. They just stayed in contact with one another.”

Sunday’s celebration included a series of posters that gave a visual timeline of Kenick’s life. The posters, created by family members, also included important world events to give a perspective on Kenick’s longevity. Kenick’s first memory is of looking out the window of her Nashua home for imaginary kangaroos as a young girl in 1911, the same year Henry Ford developed the first moving assembly line. In 1928, the year Penicillin was discovered, Kenick took a job working for Zubic Shoe Co., without her mother’s knowledge or approval. Soon after Germany invaded Poland in 1939 Kenick gave birth to her son.

“It was a wonderful party. She was so happy,” DeCrescenzo said. “It’s nice to see someone that age who’s still sharp and has it all together.”

Kenick graduated from Exeter Hospital Nursing School in 1933. The next year she married her husband of more than 50 years, Joe Kenick. The two raised three children together in Exeter: Joseph Jr., Lois and Ann. After retiring, the couple moved to Florida and lived part of the year in Lyndeborough. She has lived at Edgewater Estates in Wilton since 2000. In 2008 she was the recipient of Wilton’s Boston Post Cane, which is presented to the town’s oldest resident. Wilton selectman Bill Condra attended Sunday’s celebration to give Kenick a birthday card and a congratulatory letter on behalf of the Board of Selectmen.

“She is, to our knowledge, the first centurion citizen of the town of Wilton,” Condra said.