Woman celebrates 110th birthday - BBC News(Birthday News)
Minnie Smith fell in love during World War I but never married A woman who was born during the reign of Queen Victoria and has seen three centuries and two world wars is celebrating her 110th birthday. Her nieces Josepha Strange, 85, and Sylvia Bond, 80, said their aunt started working as a maid at the age of 14 in 1912, the year Titanic sank on its maiden voyage. Miss Smith fell in love with an Australian soldier called Noddy who came to stay at a house where she was working during World War I, but as her mother disapproved of the relationship the soldier left after the war, her nieces said. During World War II, at the age of 41, Miss Smith moved in with a fellow maid Edith Rixon and the two then served the Salvation Army. More Birthday News
