Australia’s oldest woman turns 110-years-old today. She was born in Adelaide in 1914 and will celebrate the occasion this afternoon with her family.
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00:00Lorna Henstridge lives here at this nursing home in Bordertown in South Australia's southeast.
00:07She's been here for about five years, but before that, for 60 years, she lived in Keith,
00:12also in South Australia's southeast.
00:14She was born in Adelaide in 1914 and met her husband, Alan, in World War II and set up
00:19a menswear store in Keith, where they lived together for a long time and had a big interest
00:24in sports.
00:25They've got three children and today, they'll be celebrating with them and grandchildren
00:31and great-grandchildren for Lorna's 110th birthday.
00:35I just keep on keeping on.
00:40I've always liked exercise, fresh air, interesting people and being active all the time.
00:50Lorna's daughter, Jenny Jacobs, was the Director of Nursing here at the Bordertown Hospital
00:55for a long time and she can't remember anyone as healthy as Lorna, even 10 years younger
01:00than her.
01:01It's in the gene, I think, apart from the fact that she also has to exercise and she's
01:06been very energetic all her life.
01:09The oldest person in Australia is 110-and-a-half-year-old Ken Weeks, who lives in Grafton in northern
01:14New South Wales.
01:15The second oldest woman, after Lorna, is Mavis Turner, who also lives in South Australia
01:21at Encounter Bay.
01:23She'll turn 110 next week.