Plain guide to long life
GOOD clean living is the secret of a long life . . . and
Bertha Arnold should know for she is celebrating her 101st
birthday.
Bertha, who now lives at Orchard House, Barton
Road, Kettering, spent much of her life in farming and
reckons the open air life also helped keep her going.
She said: "I have always lived a good clean life and
had plain food. I have never smoked or drunk alcohol."
She was born in Desborough and moved to Pipewell
when she married. In 1933 she helped run a smallholding
which included a milk round.
In those days the milk was taken round in a bucket
and sold from pint or half-pint measures. Bertha, a widow,
retired just after World War Two.
There are five generations of her family and many of
them paid her a visit on her special day, together with the
Mayor and Mayoress of Kettering.
Bertha, whose husband died a number of years ago,
has three sons, five grandchildren, six great grandchildren
and two great great grandchildren.
Orchard House manager Alison Watson said: "She is a
very lively and cheerful person to have about."
from: the
Evening Telegraph
Wednesday, November 4, 1987.
Bertha was
the daughter of
Henry Marlow and
Harriett Letts.