A DOWNEND care home resident is celebrating reaching her 100th birthday.
Joyce Haigh celebrated her centenary on January 6 with a “huge party with all her family and friends” at Avonmere in Badminton Road, where she has been living for nearly three years.
Joyce was born in Oldham, Lancashire, and moved to Yorkshire was she was ten years old.
She says her earliest memory is playing with her favourite toy, a ‘whip and top’, when she was ten.
After leaving school she worked in an office at a foundry and then at a mill, before becoming a typist at a theatre and then spending four years working for the National Girobank.
Joyce married husband Fred at the age of 20. He was a regional manager for a tailoring company and it was in the course of his work that the family moved to Thornbury, and then lived in Winterborne.
Joyce has three children, seven grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren, the youngest of whom is a six-year-old boy.
Avonmere well-being coordinator Bea Lush said: “Joyce loved driving her car, and only stopped driving at the age of 91.”