Great-gran reaches 110 and celebrates with fish and chips family feast!
Article Date: 2015-02-20
A Devon pensioner thought to be the UK^s 15th oldest person treated her
family to fish and chips to celebrate her 110th birthday.Great granny Tillie Montague celebrated her 110th birthday with a slap-up family meal of fish and chips.
She was married to toy-boy husband Charles for more than 71 years and he died two years ago aged 100.
Tillie, from Combe Martin, North Devon, is thought to be the 15th oldest person in Britain.
Her son, Michael, said: "She still knits and is knitting for children in Africa." The news follows confirmation last month that Ethel Lang, who was understood to be the last person living in the UK born in the reign of Queen Victoria, died aged 114.
For more on the story, check the Daily Mirror website on http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/great-gran-reaches-110-celebrates-fish-5192947
She was married to toy-boy husband Charles for more than 71 years and he died two years ago aged 100.
Tillie, from Combe Martin, North Devon, is thought to be the 15th oldest person in Britain.
Her son, Michael, said: "She still knits and is knitting for children in Africa." The news follows confirmation last month that Ethel Lang, who was understood to be the last person living in the UK born in the reign of Queen Victoria, died aged 114.
For more on the story, check the Daily Mirror website on http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/great-gran-reaches-110-celebrates-fish-5192947
