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Irene Watson
celebrating her 101st birthday with her daughter Fiona Martin.
Ron Smith Care Centre resident Irene Watson celebrated her 101st birthday on 8 September.
Irene was born in
1921 in County Durham, England. Her father Richard was a farmer, while her
mother Harriet assisted the local midwife.
“My first job
was in the counting house of a huge department store. To transfer money, we put
it into a tube and into a special shoot, where it would go whooshing through to
its destination,” she says.
Irene met her
husband Reginald at a dance in Darlington and they married as soon as the war
was over in 1945.
After Reginald
got a job in Bulawayo, Irene travelled by ship with her two young children, for
15 days, from South Hampton, England, to Cape Town. “Then we travelled by train
for two days to Bulawayo,” says Irene.
She enjoys listening
to light music on the radio; and loves the lake, trees, flowers, gardens, birds
and ducks at Ron Smith Care Centre. Irene also enjoys her visits with her
daughter Fiona Martin.
