Hundred-year-old West Island resident Rose Blanche Simpson blew out her candles on Tuesday.
Simpson is the grandmother of Global’s morning traffic reporter Debbi Marsellos.
Pierrefonds Borough Mayor Jim Beis and city Coun. Catherine Clément-Talbot visited Simpson on her special day.
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They presented the young centennial with a certificate of congratulations.
Mayor Beis was honoured to be by Simpsons’ side, he said.
“I always tell my kids that I would love to be 100 and here, I am sitting next to you.”
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Simpson also received letters from some notable people including the Governor General, prime minister and the Queen.
The former Montreal General Hospital nurse’s aid has lived to see three generation of her family. She has two daughters, five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren with another one on the way.
Simpson has been retired for 37 years now, after leaving the St-Hubert air force base in 1981.
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Simpson had a quieter celebration on Sunday at her residence in Pierrefonds surrounded by family and friends.
Marsellos says she still has a great sense of humour, quick wit and a sharp tongue.
Her secret to longevity: “I don’t think about it. I just live one day at a time, take each day as it comes,” Simpson said. But most importantly, she says, “think funny.”
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