OLIVE Rochford, who recently turned 100 years old, is the widow of eminent scientist David Rochford, an oceanographer for the former CSIRO division of Fisheries and Oceanography, Cronulla.
In 1950 the couple moved to Caringbah, where she lived most of her life.
In the early days of their marriage Olive accompanied David on his work testing estuary salt levels of the estuarine waters of Australia, usually with one or two children on board an old Bedford truck.
She supported her husband on his many overseas trips to represent Australia including at UNESCO conferences and at one time cared for four of their children for a year while he was overseas.
After David retired they travelled the world together.
Olive celebrated her century at John Paul Village, Heathcote surrounded by her four surviving children, 14 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
