Party as Linda marks her 100th

Date published: 21 October 2014


LINDA Dowdney marked her 100th birthday with her loved ones on Saturday.

Now living in Moor Haven Nursing Home, Ripponden Road, Linda was born in Andover, Hampshire.

Linda met Charles Heath Dowdney and took his name and the couple moved to Manchester in 1957.

Charles died in 1984 and Linda eventually moved in with her daughter in 2006 before moving into Moor Haven Nursing Home in 2013.

Linda has six grandchildren and many great-grandchildren, who all planned to be at her big birthday party.