From the Maitland Mercury report:
Blanche Coward says there is no secret to a long life.
The resident of Calvary’s Mt Carmel aged care hostel at Maitland will turn 110 on Saturday – but she doesn’t know what the fuss is about.
She said there was no magic formula to celebrating 110 birthdays.
The family settled in Pymble, on Sydney’s north shore. Ms Coward worked as a salesgirl and married Charles Coward, who served as a stretcher bearer in World War II.
He died at 51, when Ms Coward was a week off her 45th birthday. They did not have children.
She remained living in Sydney, but her grand-nephew wanted her to move closer to the family in Maitland. That’s how she came to move into Calvary’s Mt Carmel aged care hostel, at the age of 99.
Full article by Briony Snedden available at Maitland Mercury, 16 Dec, 2011.
