Trio celebrate their 100th birthdays
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A SPEYSIDE day centre has become a longevity hotspot.
Birthday celebrations are taking place today (Friday) for not one, not two, but three centenarians who regularly attend the Linnburn day service in the village of Rothes.
In the summer of 1914, as the First World War was declared, three healthy babies were born in Dumfrieshire, Lancashire, and at the Braes of Glenlivet.
The first was Margaret Warren, born in June into a farming household in Canonbie, near Langholm. George Burdekin was born on August 5, in the Lancashire village of Clayton-le-Moors, near Accrington.
And 26 days later, Lena MacDonald came into the world at the Braes of Glenlivet.
The trio of Linnburn friends have survived both world wars, lived through rationing and the great depression, seen the invention of the TV, celebrated the Coronation of the Queen, lived through decimalisation, watched as the two-sides of the Channel Tunnel met, and today will learn the result of the Scottish Referendum.
Local dignitaries, family, friends and fellow Linnburn attendees and staff will join them in the Moray village for a joint celebration of three centuries of life.
“It is unbelievable, and all three from such a small day centre. There must be something about the good air up there,” said Lena’s eldest daughter Moira Maclean, who is travelling from East Renfrewshire to join her mum for the special event.
Lena, who has lived the majority of her life in Aberlour, celebrated her birthday at the Fleming Hospital, where a party was held to mark her 100th year.
Born into farming stock in the Braes, she attended Glenrinnes School and then Dufftown, before taking on domestic duties for an elderly woman in Elgin.
Full story in Northern Scot print version.
