Inverclyde<\/a> to work as a nanny in New York, where she stayed for seven years.\n<\/p>\n\n ![]()
null (Image: George Munro)\n<\/p>\n
\n Janette said: “She had a wonderful experience in America. I remember her visiting my family on trips home. It took her six weeks to travel there on the ship. I’ve seen the pictures, it looks amazing.”\n<\/p>\n
\n When her sister died, however, Nancy returned to Port Glasgow to look after her mother, and went back to work at the Co-op.\n<\/p>\n
\n The centenarian was still living in her own home, in Station Road, until four years ago, when her health failed a wee bit and she needed more support.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cShe is amazing,\u201d Janette said. \u201cShe still gets around, and gets up for a wee dance. She always has a smile on her face and is in good spirits.\n<\/p>\n
\n “If she has something to tell you, she won’t hold back.\n<\/p>\n
\n “She enjoyed her holidays. she liked going to Spain with her friend and her husband.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cShe loved her party and seeing everyone and sharing her memories and hearing about who was who and their family trees.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I am one of six, so all my siblings were there along with all our families.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Nancy was also an avid church-goer and attended, what is now the New Parish Church in Princes Street and was also active in the Women’s Guild.\n<\/p>\n
\n Asking what she thinks is her aunt\u2019s secret of long life is, Janette quipped: “She never married and never had the stress of children!\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cShe is fit as a fiddle, she always ate healthily and loved a wee whisky – the water of life – and a wee glass of wine. She just enjoyed life.”\n<\/p>\n
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