EDNA Kendrick from Tenbury is one of the increasing number of people to receive a card from The Queen to mark her 100th birthday.
A trip to the Rose and Crown in Burford was how Mrs Kendrick decided to mark her special day.
She was born on April 7 in 1915 just months after the start of the First World War. Her father was a pub manager in West Bromwich in the Black Country.
But she is hardly a newcomer to Tenbury and the Teme Valley having moved to the area in the late 1940s living first of all in Greete. She came with her husband, who died more than 20 years ago, and they lived in a bungalow that they built.
Mrs Kendrick had a brother and a sister and she has five grand children and seven great grand children with a great great grandchild on the way.
She has been active in the Tenbury area and was at one time a member of the local operatic society.
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