Great-great-gran Mary celebrates centenary (From Keighley News)

Great-great-gran Mary celebrates centenary

2:00pm Thursday 9th July 2009

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A great-great-grandmother who lives in Cross Hills celebrated her 100th birthday with friends and family on Tuesday.

Mary Hindle was born on July 7, 1909, at 1 Ward Street, Skipton, and lived there for ten years, attending Brougham Street School and the Congregational Church, on Newmarket Street.

She then moved to Haslingden, where her parents, William and Emma Watson, ran a grocery shop.At the age of 19 she moved back to Castle Street, Skipton, with her family and worked as a correspondence clerk for the Fattorinis.

She attended Mount Hermon Methodist Chapel where she met her future husband, Douglas Hindle, and the couple married in 1934. Soon after, Douglas moved to Keighley solicitors Butterfield and Stanley and the couple went to live in Keighley and then Oakworth, where they raised two sons, John and Peter, who sadly died in his 30s, and daughter Lesley.

Mary now has eight grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

Douglas died at the age of 73 in 1984 and shortly after Mary moved to sheltered accommodation at Townend Close, in Cross Hills, until the age of 98. She then transferred to the residential care part of the complex.

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