108 – and she's still as sharp as a needle!
SHE could well be West Norfolk's oldest resident, but Florence Green's mind is still as sharp as her knitting needles.
Having just celebrated her 108th birthday, Mrs Green still makes knitted toys and blankets and only sold her sewing machine last year when her eyesight started letting her down.
Youngest daughter June Evetts (73) said: "She's wonderful really.
"If she could get about she would be fine."
Mrs Green is a great grandmother seven times over and also has four grandchildren.
She has a son Bob (83) and lives with her eldest daughter May (87).
The pair share the flat in Lady Jane Grey Road, North Lynn, which Mrs Green and her late husband Walter moved into some 40 years ago after fire destroyed their previous home in Newlands Avenue.
Mrs Green survived both World Wars – serving in the Women's Air Force in the first.
She now has a collection of nine birthday cards from the Queen, who sends an annual greeting to everyone aged 100 plus.
Long life runs in Mrs Green's family.
Her last surviving sister lived to the age of 95 and her father lived to 101.
The Lynn News is unaware of an older West Norfolk resident. Hunstanton resident Emma Murrell died in March last year aged 109 and four months.
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