HER LAST BIRTHDAY
"What ft lovely time we had!" she murmured, and then, with a smile, passed on. She was Ann Stansall, who died in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, nt 108. Her last birthday was the happiest and' proudest day of her life. Flaxenhaired, bright-eyed Granny Stansall had hundreds of telegrams and greetings. She received a host of guests, making tea for them, talking'of tjie old and happy days she loved to remember. It was a fine spring day, and sh» loved every minute of it. Thbn, "when the last guest had gone home, she collapsed, and was carried to\ bed. She never left it; but she alwavs had a. strirle when'she thought of the wonderful birthday party slut bad at 108.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23181, 29 October 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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120HER LAST BIRTHDAY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23181, 29 October 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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