Dancing Dora takes to the floor for 100th birthday bash
REGULAR walks to the village shops and getting up on the dancefloor have helped centenarian Dora Hughes stay in rude health.
Dora, who moved into Reinbek care home in Davenport the day after her 99th birthday, celebrated bringing up three figures with cake and a party.
It was attended by friends and her niece and nephew Karen and Richard.
The former shop floor worker at Lewis’ famous department store in Market Street, Manchester (now Primark) has kept in fine fettle, and is the second of her siblings to reach the age of 100.
Her goddaughter Lesley Summers, from Davenport, said Liverpool-born Dora has always been very independent and had lived in Hazel Grove since the 1970s after moving there from Scotland with her late husband Bill. Lesley, 71, said: “She used to walk into Hazel Grove village to do her shopping well into her 80s. She is a lovely, lovely person. She has still got her Liverpudlian sense of humour and is absolutely no trouble at all. She’s settled in there now at Reinbek.”
Dora was delighted to receive a congratulations card from the Queen and Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd on her birthday on February 22.
Lesley added: “The girls at Reinbek were great. They made the cake and decorated the lounge and we invited some of her neighbours from when she used to live in Hazel Grove.
“It was a lovely day and she thoroughly enjoyed it.”
Michelle Spencer, Reinbek’s activities lifestyle facilitator, said Dora likes to get up and dance and get involved in entertainment at the home.
She said: “Dora is a very chatty lady with a great sense of humour.”