Happy 100th birthday for Lossiemouth's Molly McSheffrey
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Molly McSheffrey is Lossie through and through – and she's now got a hundred years of evidence to prove it.
The centenarian was born in 1923 on Clifton Road, just a stone's throw from where she lives today.
Asked why she likes the town so much, Molly, who worked as a cleaner for many years at the medical centre at RAF Lossiemouth. says: "It's where I'm from. It's where my mother and father were from."
Having attended Lossiemouth School, Molly volunteered for the Auxiliary Training Service at the age of 17, shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War.
She was posted all around the country, including stints in Yorkshire, Inverness and East Kilbride.
Part of her training included learning to fire rockets to try bring down V1s – the small flying bombs, also known as 'doodlebugs', which were employed by Nazi Germany to attack cities.
Molly met Maxi after the war and the pair married at St Sylvester's catholic church in Elgin.
The couple went on to have four children together – Andrew, Robbie, Eddie and Caroline, who each live locally.
All these years later and the family has grown and grown.
Molly now has a dozen grandchildren and two step-grandchildren.
Then there are her 21 great-grandchildren and 13 step-great-grandchildren.
And don't forget Molly's six great-great grandchildren, the youngest of which, Jackson, is just 10-months-old.
Many of the family were at her 100th birthday party which was held at Lossiemouth football club on Sunday.
One of her grandsons, Rhys Sutherland, played the pipes at the event.
Also amongst her guests were Joan Cowe, a deputy Lord-Lieutenant of Moray, plus her husband John Cowe, who's the civic leader of Moray Council.
