Australia’s oldest woman celebrates 110th birthday
Lorna Henstridge, believed to be Australia's oldest woman, has celebrated her 110th birthday.
The centenarian was born in Adelaide on June 6, 1914 and was raised in Bute, a small town in the Yorke Peninsula.
She has lived through two world wars, five monarchs and two pandemics including the 1918 influenza and Covid-19.
Henstridge celebrated her birthday at her aged care home in Bordertown on Thursday surrounded by her three children, seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
School kids from the town also shared their birthday wishes to the centenarian.
Henstridge is the second-oldest Australian, behind Ken Weeks, who turns 111 this year.
The oldest living person in the world, American-Spanish woman Maria Branyas Morera, turned 117 in March.
Henstridge recalled how different life used to be a hundred years ago.
“My father used to take me on horseback to the railway crossing when I was five years old to go to school," she said.
She also shared her secret to living a long life, which includes enjoying every moment of it, and staying physically and mentally active.
“Be active, be interested in the world, be interested in your friends. If you can do that, you’ll get a certain pleasure out of living," she said.
Living to an old age may run in the family according to Henstridge's daughter Jennie Jacobs, who said that her grandmother lived until her 90s and her great-grandmother passed aged 100.
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