A ELDERLY Malvern woman who spent her life travelling the world celebrated her 106th birthday on Sunday (August 9).
Rose Whitney, who lives at Perrins House care home, was born in 1909 in Conisborough.
When she was young she helped the war effort by working in an ammunitions factory in Yorkshire testing bullets.
When she married her husband Charles she moved to Birmingham where the pair ran a retail business.
The happy couple had two children, four grand-children and seven great grand-children.
Rose and Charles were married 38 years before he sadly passed away in his 60s leaving her a widow for the last 40 years.
Rose said: “Charles was the love of my life – I did not want to marry anyone else after him.”
Rose later moved to Malvern to be closer to her family.
Rose has always loved to travel and even visited one of her grand-children in Australia at the grand old age of 98.
When asked her secret to a long and happy life, Rose said: “I always talk to people and I am very friendly.”
To mark her birthday staff at the care home, which is run by Friends of the Elderly, presented Rose with a cake and her card from the Queen.
