HE is still one of the sharpest minds out there and beats his son at crunching numbers on Countdown – even after hitting the landmark age of 100.
Family and friends celebrated Sam Brice’s birthday in style at his son’s Steve’s home in Holland Road, Totton.
Sam, who lives at a care home in Bassett, was born in Bloxwich near Walsall in 1915 and spent most of his working life in the West Midlands where he was a works manager in the manufacturing industry.
He married wife Edna in October 1939 and served as a staff sergeant (see below) in the Second World War in India, where he was stationed in Calcutta as part of an elite group of soldiers called Force 136.
Sam and Edna (see below) were married for 74 years. Edna passed away last year.
The couple had two sons, Roger, 69 and Steve, 63, and three grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Steve said he believed his father’s old age was down to a happy marriage.
He said: “I think it is something in his character but I think the marriage has something to do with it.
“He still enjoys a glass of sherry and smokes his pipe.
“He is pretty intelligent, he always watches Countdown in the afternoon and he always gets things right on the numbers.
“For a guy of his age he is mentally very sharp.”
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