Alice turns 106

Umina resident Alice Fitzpatrick will turn 106 on August 7 this year.

Born in Waterloo in 1899 and starting school in Kurri Kurri in 1905, Ms Fitzpatrick married a Gallipoli veteran in 1919 and was a war widow by 1952.

Ms Fitzpatrick is the mother of six children, grandmother to 25, great grandmother to 48, and great, great grandmother of 28.

Ms Fitzpatrick enjoys going on coach trips with friends and is also an active member of the Red Cross Woy Woy Women's Auxiliary, Legacy and the War Widows Association.

Craig Stone, July 18