{"id":3228,"date":"2024-05-09T16:16:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T06:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/uncategorized\/olive-celebrates-her-103rd-birthday-at-stars"},"modified":"2024-05-09T16:20:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T06:20:48","slug":"olive-celebrates-her-103rd-birthday-at-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/news\/olive-celebrates-her-103rd-birthday-at-stars","title":{"rendered":"Olive celebrates her 103rd birthday at STARS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olive celebrates her 103rd birthday at STARS<\/h1>\n
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STARS patient Olive celebrating her 103rd birthday with her son Bob.<\/p><\/div>\n

While spending your birthday in hospital isn\u2019t ideal, the team at Ward 5B STARS made the day a very memorable one for patient Olive who reached the amazing age of 103!<\/h4>\n

The former Army parts interpreter celebrated the occasion in the beautiful patient lounge at STARS which staff decorated with balloons, a garland and giant silver foil 103 numbers.<\/p>\n

Olive was suitably chuffed with the impromptu party.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve still got all my faculties,\u201d Olive said, as she opened her birthday cards and listened to everyone singing\u00a0Happy Birthday<\/span>.<\/p>\n

So, what is her secret to living such a long and happy life?<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving a loving family and doing whatever makes you happy,\u201d Olive advises.<\/p>\n

Olive has had an eventful life, including an enlistment in the Army in 1945 where she met her future husband, a dispatch rider.<\/p>\n

She was also a very good seamstress, making many of the family\u2019s clothes.<\/p>\n

She still loves reading and can be found reading her copy of Women\u2019s Weekly – with a little help from a reading magnifier.<\/p>\n

Olive\u2019s son Bob was also in attendance and brought along her favourite type chocolate cupcake for the celebration.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was a very good cook in her day and her speciality was a chocolate cake. The family recipe has now been handed down to my youngest son who also likes to bake,\u201d Bob said.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

STARS patients Olive is celebrating her 103rd birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-patient-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3233,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions\/3233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/stars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}