Elizabeth Goddard celebrated her 100th birthday on the weekend.
By Nicole Williams
IT MIGHT be good genes that helped Elizabeth Goddard reach her 100th birthday on Sunday.
Elizabeth’s parent’s both lived until they were 96 and her brother Laurie McNair is 92.
“She is still a feisty old thing,” her niece Grace Rouse said.
Family, fruit cake and party hats surrounded her on Monday for the celebration at Scottsdale Aged Care.
She said the only person missing was ‘the King’, after she received congratulations from the Queen, Governor-General and Prime Minister.
The cook at Scottsdale Aged Care made her a special fruit cake to cut in front of her family and other residents, which is fitting for a woman who would make two fruit cakes every week.
“She hardly left the house without a fruit cake,” her niece Beryl McNair said.
Elizabeth was born on 22 May 1911 and after her husband Don died in 2000, she lived on her own until she moved into Scottsdale only two years ago.
Although Elizabeth never had children, her brother Laurie said she was committed to fostering.
“She reared a lot of other people’s children though,” Laurie said.
Elizabeth fostered children of people in the community who were undergoing hardship.
Elizabeth wanted to thank Grace Rouse and Peter McNair for all their help and support.
