Turning 100 is a milestone for anyone, but Lincoln Brennan Sr. had an especially big centennial celebration. It began by having a street named after him, a section of the one in Metairie that he has called home for 66 years.

“It was unexpected,” Brennan said about the rechristening of a strip of Mandarin Street as Lincoln Brennan Way. "But exciting."

Brennan is a lifelong resident of Jefferson Parish and parishioner of St. Francis Xavier Church on Metairie Road.

On Aug. 22, Parish Council members Hans Liljeberg and Jennifer Van Vrancken and other Jefferson officials gathered to honor Brennan with the renaming.

The dedication was one of many tributes that have come Brennan's way for his legacy of service in World War II and the Korean War, and as a Jefferson Parish business owner and l

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