Ivy celebrates 108th birthday with card from the King

A resident of Hillside Care Home in Goodwick has celebrated a remarkable 108^th birthday.

Ivy Skeate’s birthday fell on 1^st November and Ivy celebrated with tea and cake and family visiting the next day.

Annette Narbett, Registered Home Manager at the Pembrokeshire County Council-run Hillside, said Ivy was delighted to receive a card from His Majesty The King to mark the occasion.

Hillside’s oldest resident, and one of the oldest people in Wales, Ivy was born just after the outbreak of the First World War.

(Lead image: Pembrokeshire Council)

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Kit Peters

Kit Peters is a journalist and the editor of Swansea Bay News, covering Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire since 2020.