LaVerne Biser, a 105-year-old Texas grandfather and retired plane designer, will watch his 13th total solar eclipse on Monday after a lifetime of chasing the astronomical phenomenon.
A 105-year-old Texas grandfather and retired plane designer will watch his 13th total solar eclipse on Monday after a lifetime of chasing the astronomical phenomenon.
LaVerne Biser has been an “eclipse chaser” since 1963 — when he packed his wife and three kids into a station wagon and drove nearly 2,000 miles from the Lonestar State to Maine to catch their first solar eclipse.
“That one eclipse was all it took,” Biser, who was 45 at the time, told the last week. “I saw one and I had to see them all. I was hooked.”
Since that day, he’s been traveling the world to view as many solar eclipses as possible.
He and his late wife have been to Brazil, the Black Sea, the Virgin Islands and more in chase of the best viewpoint of different eclipses.
The last one he watched with his wife Marion, who died last year at age 97, was in 2017.
“It was a good one,” he said to Fox 4 Dallas.
