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Allanah Waddell is still smiling after her 100th birthday celebrations on Saturday.
“She had a wonderful day,” her son Iain Winton said.
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An idyllic beach scene at North Cronulla in the 1960s is one of many memories that will be shared when Allanah Waddell celebrates her 100th birthday on Saturday, January 21.
The photo, taken after the seawall was smashed by a big storm, shows Mrs Waddell relaxing with her husband David and their four children.
Their attire contrasts starkly with that in a beach photo from the 1930s of Mrs Waddell with her sisters and mother in Scotland, where she was born and lived until she and her husband migrated to Australia with their young family in 1959.
Nieces and a grand nephew from Scotland, eight grandchilden and 12 great grandchildren, are among those attending the birthday celebrations at Taren Point Bowling Club.
As well as congratulation from the Queen and other Australian dignitaries, Mrs Waddell has received a letter of congratulations from the Lord Provost of Glasgow, with a gift of a scarf in the Glasgow tartan.
From the time she arrived in Australia, Mrs Waddell lived in Cronulla until late last year when she became a resident of St. Basil’s aged care facility in Miranda. Her husband died in 2007.
Allanah Speirs Marshall was born in Glasgow in 1917, the younger of Identical twins, and fifth in a family of four girls and one boy.
She married David Winton in 1940 and their son Iain was born in 1943.
Three months after the happy event, David Winton collapsed and died while travelling back from leave to rejoin his regiment, the Gordon Highlanders .
In 1946, Allanah married David Waddell, her late husband’s best mate, and they had three children, a boy Alastair and two girls, Lana and Fiona.
The couple loved to travel and their journeys took them through most of Europe and the Americas as well as parts of Asia.
In the early 1970s, they took the overland route from Australia to Britain, where in India they were held up by bandits in the Khyber Pass.
