Florence celebrates her 100th birthday

11:50am Sunday 31st August 2008

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A WOMAN who played a major part in village life has celebrated her 100th birthday.

Florence Griffiths-Jones was born in Stoke Edith in 1908 and attended Tarrington School until the age of 14 - during which time she remembers standing in the playground watching one of the first motor cars driven by the Foley family pass by.

Florence's first job was helping her mother run the post office in Stoke Edith and she also taught Sunday school at the village church.

She married her first husband, Ronald Griffiths in 1939, but he died at the battle of Nijmegen, Holland, in 1944.

She then married Roger Jones in 1952 and they moved to Weobley before going on to Stafford, where Florence now lives in a nursing home.

Florence has a daughter from her first marriage and a son from her second marriage, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

The Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire, James Hawley, presents a card from the Queen to Florence Griffiths-Jones.