Elsie’s 106 today
Date published: 18 January 2011
Elsie Brereton — happy birthday!
ELSIE Brereton, one of Oldham’s oldest residents, celebrates her 106th birthday today.
The sprightly centenarian broke her hip just before her 102nd birthday but bounced back to full health and now there’s nothing stopping her.
The former mill worker lives with her daughter Barbara Barnes and son-in-law Jack Barnes in High Crompton. She has two children, three grandchildren and four great grandchildren. She married her first husband William Whalley at Oldham Parish Church in 1928 when she was 23. Sadly, William died and Elsie then married Ernest Brereton in 1963.
Yesterday, Marion Wolfenden, who lives at the Millfield residential home in Waterhead, celebrated her 105th birthday.
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