Twins Pat, Jr. and Rose Ann O'Connor Jones celebrated their 15th birthday just last year.  That seems strange to those who know they were born to Mary O'Connor in 1940.  However, they were born on February 29 and so their birthday officially comes just once every four years.  The following comes from the Pharos Tribune issue of February 29, 2000, and was accompanied with a picture of Pat and Rose Ann:

     "There are at least a dozen Leap Year Day babies who have been born in Cass County.  Then there's Mary O'Connor's 'daily double,' twins Pat O'Connor Jr. and Rose Ann O'Connor Jones.  When they were born in St. Joseph Hospital in 1940, one in 67 births produced a set of twins.  But the chances of giving birth to twins on Leap Day is one in 2 million.
     "I think I was the only one who was really happy about the whol thin," said Mary O'Connor in 1996.  She remembered the doctor and that her husband, Pat, almost passed out.
     "At 5-feet-2-inches weighing in at 100 pounds, everybody came running to her room to see for themselves 'the little lady who had the twins.'
     "Now 87, Mary O'Connor lives in a nursing home in Indianapolis not far from her twin son while Rose Ann Jones continues to reside in Logansport."

 

Pat and Rose Ann O'Connor with their mother on their "15th" Birthday in 2000.