ONE of Chepstow’s oldest residents celebrated her 100th birthday with a party attended by family and friends from around the world on Sunday afternoon.
About 55 family and friends celebrated Eileen Jones’ big day with her at The Reddings community hall in Bulwark and the town’s mayor Cllr Ned Heywood also dropped in on the festivities.
Her former carer and friend Theresa Lee said Mrs Jones was born in Reading and lived “for a long, long time” in Rogiet before she moved to Chepstow.
She was married to husband Charlie, who worked on the railways and died about 18 years ago, and has a son, Philip, who lives in France, and a daughter, Hillary, who lives closer in Sudbrook.
Both children attended, along with nieces who had travelled from South Africa and Australia to celebrate with their aunt.
Mrs Lee said her friend enjoys television murder serials like Poirot and Inspector Morse, and being a keen reader, she reads anything she is given in enlarged text. And Mrs Lee made a birthday cake for the occasion, a Madeira sponge, topped with a sugar flower display which her friend has kept.
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