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From: Annette Fulford <>
Subject: Another article on WW1 Veteran and War bride
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 06:41:18 -0700

Globe and Mail
May 10, 2006

107 years young, she still loves to dance
Woman in B.C. rest home could be Britain's last living female veteran of the
Great War
TOM HAWTHORN

Special to The Globe and Mail

Her health is good, her memory just beginning to slip, her life a
comfortable routine built around the dining schedule of her B.C. rest home.

Gladys Powers is to dine at lunch today on pork cutlets and apple sauce,
followed by peach crisp for dessert. The staff and residents at her
Abbotsford facility are then to serenade their oldest friend with a hearty
rendition of Happy Birthday to You, whose melody was written just six years
before her birth in 1899.

Mrs. Powers turns 107 today.

"Another year older," she acknowledged in an interview this week. "I should
be dancing."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060510.BCWARVET10/TPStory/?query=Tom+Hawthorn

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