TODAY SUPER CENTENARIAN Emily Clarke turns 110 and she is still going.
Yesterday the island’s second eldest citizen celebrated the great milestone at the Gordon Cummins Hospital along with other patients, staff members and relatives.
The hospital’s acting principal nursing officer Brenda King told the SATURDAY SUN that the immobile mother of four has 26 grandchildren and nine great-grands.
She said Clarke had a hearty appetite, could be a dictator at times, but overall was a good patient who was loved by all at the health care facility.
“Emily is a fiesty old lady. She has a hearing impairment but sometimes you believe she hears conveniently. Sometimes she hears you calling her and she answers and then sometimes she says: ‘Huh, what you say’,” said King.
Sitting by Clarke’s side was her 83-year-old daughter and eldest child Rita Neblett, who expressed her pleasure at her mother’s longevity which came with no major health challenges.
“I am happy my mother get to this age. She go and come but she calls the names of family members.”
Here, Clarke is surrounded by granddaughters Pauline Stuart (left) and Sandra Clarke and daughter Rita Neblett (right). (AH)
