Kathleen Headley of Norton Street, Werk-en-Rust celebrated her 100th birthday last month.
Kathleen, who is fondly known as ‘Nen’, was born on October 15, 1914 to farmers Rebecca Elizabeth Arthur-Norton and Lionel Theophillus Norton at New Supply, East Bank Demerara. Kathleen was the eldest of six siblings, four of whom were girls. Today Kathleen and her sister Lynette Eloise Norton-Arthur-Francis are the two surviving siblings, she told Stabroek News.
The spunky centenarian recalled that she was educated at the Canadian Missionary Primary School, Demerara River where holidays were in July and schooling took place during August. She started pre-school at age five and continued up to Sixth Standard. After leaving school, Kathleen worked in Linden, first as a nanny with the Saddler-Brown family who were Canadians. She was an active member of Cephas Congregational Church at Low Wood and
