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Devon and Exeter Gazette Friday 19 May 1939
Page 11 Column 5
101 YEARS OLD.
Death of Kingsteignton's Centenarian.
MRS. BRIDGET GERMON.
Kingsteignton's centenarian, Mrs. Bridget GERMON, who celebrated her 101st birthday in February, died early on Monday at Newton Abbott Infirmary, where she had been a patient for five days.
Until recently Mrs. GERMON was remarkably active for her great age. Her first visit to a cinema was paid at the age of 100, and even more recently she visited one of her daughters in hospital at Teignmouth. She performed light household duties, and declined assistance in such matters as dressing. The only long journey in her life was made by Mrs. GERMON as a young girl, when she travelled from Ireland to Plymouth in a cattle boat. Despite the poor roads and travelling conditions in those times, she intended to walk to the Northcountry. She reached as far as North Devon, but was there taken ill, and subsequently met her husband in that district. In the intervening years she never left Devon, although on the occasion of her last birthday she expressed the hope that she might live sufficiently long to pay a visit to London.
Thus in three months Mid-Devon has lost two of its three centenarians, Miss KITSON, of Bovey Travey, having passed away a short time ago. The remaining centenarian is Mrs. A. E. LUGARD, of Dawlish.