Former midwife looks back on 100 years
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A retired district … midwife has celebrated her 100th birthday putting down her longevity to ‘hard work’ while doing a job she loved.
Bertha Kilgannan was born in Jersey on November 18, 1909 and moved to Tiverton in Devon as a child where she went to school.
Her grandmother and mother were district nurses and the young Bertha followed into the profession …
… She married, to become Bertha Hookway and had a son and daughter.
… Bertha said of her career as a midwife when she would go door-to-door on her bicycle: “I loved it. I loved my babies and the mothers.
“It was hard work, but it was an interesting job – you were interested in the mothers and their babies.”
… On turning 100 … ednesday she said: “I have had a good life. It’s been a long life …
“I look back and think I wish I had done something, but it has not been too bad in the long run … I have had a good life.”
Melissa Maimann, Essential Birth Consulting 0400 418 448