Waterfall resident, Aileen celebrates 100th birthday
The Waterfall resident celebrated her birthday surrounded by family and friends.
THE Roaring Twenties refers to the decade of the 1920s when there was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge.
It was also the period in which the world was still feeling the after effects of World War I, that ended in November 1918.
What’s more, the Spanish flu, also known as the 1918 flu pandemic, an unusually deadly influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza had just ended.
The virus lasted from February 1918 to April 1920, it infected 500 million people – about a third of the world’s population at the time – in four successive waves.
1920 was also the year that Waterfall resident, Aileen Moore was born.
She arrived on 14 September 1920. This month, the centenarian celebrated her 100th birthday around family and friends.
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Moore, an only child, was born in King Williams Town and grew up in Bloemfontein.
She worked as a nurse for about three years during the war. “My mom was a nurse, I looked up to her,” she said.
Moore was happily married for more than 50 years to her sweetheart, Sydney, who passed away in 2000.
They stayed in Durban for many years before they moved to Waterfall about 20 years ago.
Moore said she can not believe she is a 100 years old.
“I do not feel 100. I wouldn’t have reached this milestone if it was not for the kindness and love from my family.
“I have led a healthy lifestyle and have been happy my whole life. Being around people who care and love me is what has kept me going for so many years. I am truly grateful and blessed,” she said with a smile.
She has one daughter, Heather Berman, two grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
Berman said they consider this as an achievement.
“We are a close-knit family. My mother is still healthy and able to play a game of scrabble.”
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