Oldest in UK dies aged 113
BRITAIN’S oldest person has died aged 113.
Olive Boar was born into a completely different world to the one she left, where even radio and television seemed space age dreams.
The country’s 10th oldest ever person lived through two world wars, 22 prime ministers and countless technological innovations.
Radio was invented when she was aged two and TV when she was 21.
Despite dramatic changes, Mrs Boar stuck to what she knew best – never using electric cooking tools or even an automatic washing machine.
When the grandmother of five and great grandmother of 11 was born in 1904, the tea bag had only just been invented.
Working as a seamstress after she left school, she married Claude Boar – a seed analyst – in 1932 and they bought a house for just £300.
She would live in that home until she was 108, raising two children.
Son Robin, 73, said his mother, who grew up in Ipswich, Suffolk, and was living in a care home in Felixstowe when she died, was “a fairly amazing woman in many ways”.
He said: “She was very homely, very caring, there if anyone needed anything – but she was quite strongwilled and wouldn’t let anyone push her around, even in recent years.”
Grace Catherine Jones, of Broadway, Worcs, takes over the mantle of Britain’s oldest resident at the age of 111.