Britain's oldest person Ethel Lang dies aged 114

[Northerner]

Britain's oldest person has died at the age of 114.

Ethel Lang was believed to be the last person living in the UK who was born in the reign of Queen Victoria.

Mrs Lang was born in the Worsbrough area of Barnsley on 27 May 1900 and lived in the South Yorkshire town all her life.

In 2005, she moved into the Water Royd House nursing home in Barnsley, where a spokesman confirmed she had died on Thursday.

Mrs Lang left school at 13 to work in a shirt factory and married her husband, William, in 1922. Mr Lang died in 1988.

She became the UK's oldest person after Londoner Grace Jones died aged 113 in 2013.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-30845570

 

[trophywench]

Aaah, Bless her.

Odd to consider really - by that age, your kids could have pre-deceased you quite easily having had quite normal life-spans themselves.

 

[HOBIE]

A good age ! I bet she was not afraid of hard work