TAURANGA CENTENARIAN
' MRS. I. B. MUNRO STILL DOES OWN HOUSEWORK A century will have been spanned to-day by Mrs. Isabella Bain Muriro, of Sixth Avenue, Tauranga, who was born at Lossiemouth, Scotland, on February 19, 1842. Lossiemouth was also the birthplace of the late Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, who was a boyhood playmate of Mrs. Monro's children.
After her marriage to the late Mr. William Munro, a ship's officer, Mrs. Munro lived in Scotland and London, and in 1903 they arrived in New Zealand. Mr. Munro, established a shipwright business in Auckland, and the family lived at Ponsonby and Onehunga, and later, when Mr. Munro retired from business, at Lake Rotoiti. Her husband died in 1916. Active and very alert, Mrs. Munro takes pride in still doing her own housework in her Tauranga home, where she is living with her son, Mr. J. B. Munro. Another son is Mr. William Munro, Sumner, and Mrs. T. E. Smith, Onehunga, is a daughter.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24203, 19 February 1942, Page 9
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167TAURANGA CENTENARIAN New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24203, 19 February 1942, Page 9
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