Dorcas Enid Mars-Lynch on Tuesday celebrated her 100th birthday.
Dorcas, who hails from Catherina’s Lust, celebrated her birthday with her two sisters ages 90 and 93.
She still enjoys knitting, playing dominos, and reading.
Six of her seven children are alive; she has seventeen grandchildren and many great grands and great great grands.
One of her granddaughters, Ann Semple takes care of her.
“She likes to give you a lot of advice. She is very kind and very quiet. She loves all of her kids and all of her grandkids and if she likes you more, the two of you will get along very well. She is a very nice person if you get to know her but if she says that she is not doing something you will not get her to do it,” Semple explained.
According to Semple, on some occasions when she has a doctor’s appointment, her grandmother will bluntly refuse to go.
“She will tell you that she is not going. Sometimes she would say that the doctor wants money and she wants money too but at other times she is willing to go.”
In her younger days, Dorcas was considered as a good baker and did all of the baking for the family. She also taught her grandchildren to dance.
However, now being plagued with arthritis, that is all history.
“As she is getting down, she doesn’t do much.”
According to Semple even to this day Aunt Dorcas still goes into the kitchen and dictates how things are to be done.
The centenarian is also said to be diabetic.
Dorcas had gotten married in 1955 to a Transport and Harbor Department train checker but he passed away in 1979. She has been a widow for the past 41 years.
