Click here for a news item which includes a brief video of Shea. He remains in relatively good health, much better than his friend and colleague, Billy Graham. The Associated Press has a news item on Shea's 100th birthday and includes the following anecdote:
While Shea hasn't driven a vehicle since he was 95, he noticed a year ago that his driver's license had expired. Wanting to keep an updated form of identification, he went down to the local office, passed the vision test and won a new license.
"I don't feel 100," Shea said during a recent interview at his home in Montreat, about 15 miles east of Asheville.
The AP article describes Shea this way:
But with a personality that strays from humble to bashful, Shea deemed his role in the ministry as "very insignificant" — especially compared with his contemporaries.
Me: Bev Shea is a genuinely humble, godly man which explains why God has blessed him and his music as He has.