ONSTED — Some friendships come and go.

Not so for Marcella Barricklow and Doris Morningstar-Bayes, who both recently celebrated their 100th birthdays, and who have been friends for 85 years.

Though they were born just eight days apart, the two didn’t actually meet until they were teenagers. Barricklow (the former Marcella Onsted) and Morningstar-Bayes (the former Doris Dentel) attended different elementary schools, but then became friends during their freshman year at Onsted High School.

From then on, their lives paralleled each other in many ways. They double-dated with their future husbands. They graduated from high school together in 1943. And after their husbands returned from World War II, they ended up as neighbors on Shepherd Road.

Their children grew up together, too, and Barricklow’s youngest daughter, Carla, recalls that Morningstar-Bayes was her bus driver when she was in school.

Barricklow — who worked as a bookkeeper at Onsted schools, then later went back to school at Siena Heights and taught business at what was then the Vo-Tech Center — still lives at the family farm on Shepherd Road that she and her husband bought in 1948. Morningstar-Bayes now lives with her daughter in Muskegon.

Barricklow turned 100 on May 11, and Morningstar-Bayes turned 100 on May 19. They celebrated together with dozens of friends and family members on May 17 at Durkee-Seager American Legion Post 550 on Onsted.

“We just had a lot of fun,” Barricklow said, thinking back over the many years that the two women have been friends. “Our kids had a lot of fun. We’ve lived a good life.”

As for favorite memories of their youth, some things will remain unwritten.

“We’ve got lots of stories,” she said with a smile. “But we’re not going to tell you.”