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Tributes to one of Britain's oldest women
PROUD relatives published a poem urging people to enjoy their old age after the death of one of the oldest women in Britain at the age of 107.
Addie Weston, who lived for many years in Balcombe, featured regularly in the Mid Sussex Times because of her long lifespan, which took from her birth in the summer of 1901 through an entire century of The Depression, two World Wars, to men landing on the moon.
Addie also enjoyed the first eight years of this century and her relatives summed up her positive attitude to later life in a poem published in this month's Balcombe Parish Magazine.
Called Age is a Quality of Mind it reads:
Age is a quality of mind.
If you have left your dreams behind,
If hope is cold,
If you no longer look ahead, if your ambitions' fires are dead
Then you are old.
But if from life you take the best,
And if from life you keep the zest,
If love you hold,
No matter how the years go by,
No matter how the birthdays fly,
You are not old.
Addie, was nominated at the age of 105 as one of the Middy's top mums contest by her proud daughter Sally Dowsett, of Haywards Heath Road, Balcombe.
Mrs Dowsett described her as unselfishly loving and caring, and a "happy cheerful little lady with a heart full of love".
Addie died last month after spending her last years at Buxshalls, near Lindfield, which announced earlier this year it would be closing.
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