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Article: 19 PMs later, Hilda's 102.
- Article from:
- The News (Portsmouth, England)
- Article date:
- April 17, 2007
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HILDA Thomas was joined by both her son and granddaughter when she turned 102.
Her son, Brian Thomas, visits her every day at Springfield Nursing Home in Emsworth, where she has been a resident for a year.
Staff had set up a special table for the two for them to have lunch together on her birthday and Mrs Thomas' granddaughter, Amanda Thomas, dropped in with her congratulations.
Mr Thomas said: 'My mother was born in the same year as the Swedish actress Greta Garbo, but has worn rather better. She has seen 19 different prime ministers take up office, lived through two world wars and married my father Joseph in 1926.
'I had a wonderful ...