101 YEARS OLD
WHANGAREI WOMAN
(P.A.)
WHANGAREI, Dec. 18,
Born in Queen street, Auckland, Mrs. Annie Telfer, Whangarei, was 101 years old to-day. Ilcr husband, with whom she developed a farm from the virgin bush at Parau Bay, has been dead for 62 years. Mrs. Telfer has 118 direct descendants, including four great-great-grandchildren.
Of the original family of 12, two, both over 70, predeceased her. Two grandsons were killed in the wars and one accidentally.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21900, 19 December 1945, Page 6
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75101 YEARS OLD Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21900, 19 December 1945, Page 6
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