A NURSING home resident was joined by family, friends and staff to celebrate her 106th birthday.
Horsfall House Minchinhampton was the venue for the party for Harmonie ‘Violet’ Boyce on Sunday September 29, with music from jazz pianist John Broomhall and guitarist Steven Witcombe.
Mrs Boyce has lived in the Stroud district all of her life.
She attended Nailsworth Primary School and later went on to art school.
She married in Amberly church in 1940 and moved to Lames Park, Minchinhampton, where she brought up her two daughters, Helen, who now lives in Canada, and Rosie.
Mrs Boyce and her husband took in evacuees during the Second World War.
In 1959 she was widowed and she lived independently until at the age of 101, when she moved to Horsfall House in 2013.
One of Mrs Boyce’s greatest hobbies was gardening and she enjoyed tending flowers and shrubs in her garden.
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