An Omaha woman has quite an undertaking ahead of her. She's working on putting her life story down on paper, though there are thousands of stories she won’t be able to fit in.

"I'm here to tell the tale." For her birthday, Mildred Miller received a book from her family, a place to document details of her life. "I just wish I had had it sooner when I could write better."

After her birthday last week, she has a lot of work ahead with 95 years to remember. “Honesty takes care of all the golden rules."

The retired teacher married Raymond Miller during the Great Depression and they had two children, Mary Ann and Douglas. "I've never lost my hair and at 95 I've lost a lot."

Cancer took her breasts. Her daughter's cancer was worse though. "They all knew I was a cancer survivor and my daughter had cancer. She paid $72 for one of these hats and said, 'mother, I know, you can make hats.'"

Little did she know those seven words would still resonate today. "I'm just going to quit counting now. I know I’ve been at it 12, 13 years now."

Her days of shopping for the fabric as she did a few years ago have ended. Her sewing machine is upstairs now, but the final destination hasn't changed. Her hats still go to Methodist Hospital for women who have lost their hair due to treatment. "I make them kind of tight-fitting."

By her count, she's donated 12,000 hats of comfort. "You can imagine how much white thread I use." These days, age has forced her to get an assistant who packs and ships.

What started out as a project of love for her daughter grew into something that even surprised her. "I know they want me to keep making them, but I will have to think that one through because I can't read like I used to. I love to do this. It's a good feeling."

It's hard to argue that the hat lady deserves retirement. Mildred says there's only one thing she would change in her life, that her father wouldn't have died so young. He was in his 40s when cancer took his life.