Annan’s Lydiafield Care home has been celebrating two residents becoming centenarians and a 65th wedding anniversary.
It means that the centre at Standalane has some of the first residents in Dumfries and Galloway to receive congratulatory cards from King Charles.
Deputy Lord Lieutenant Hardip Atwal called in to deliver flowers and present the card from the King to a popular resident, Janet Wallace.
Known as Jenny and born the eldest of six children in Greenock, her Annan-born dad met her mother there while working as a quarryman and train conductor and driver.
Jenny remembers her mother sitting her up as a very young girl on the bedroom dresser to wave out of the window as her father went past on the train.
She got married when she was 18 and had three daughters, spending her working life in various shops and stores.
During WWII she came to live in Annan to work for three-and- a-half years in the munitions factory at Powfoot cutting the cordite made to go into the shells which meant a great deal to the war effort.
Eventually, Jenny moved back to Annan permanently to look after her ailing parents and only moved into the care home six months before her 100th birthday.
She was delighted to celebrate the occasion with her daughter, son-in-law, granddaughter and new-born great grandson who spent the day with her having prosecco and cakes, opening presents, and reminiscing.
The family of the home’s second centenarian requested no publicity. It was also a special time recently for Bill and Hilda Anderson who celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary with a lunch at Lydiafield and also received a card from the King.
