Birthday buddies and next-door neighbors turn 101 on same day

Imagine living next door to a neighbor who is exactly your age and who shares the very same birthday.Josie Church and Anne Wallace-Hadrill know all about this.They also know about longevity — and a lot of luck. The two women have lived side-by-side since the 1980s.The great-grandmothers were also born on the same day in 1924 — April 1 — according to news agency SWNS. She added of her neighbor in Oxford, in the U.K., “Anne was very busy when she was younger — so was I — and was very productive and creative.

She did a lot of painting and tapestry, and she was always busy, and I was always busy doing something else, somewhere else, because that’s the sort of life we live.”She also said, “I don’t think we’ve thought much about the time passing.It’s just passed.”Both women were very involved in volunteering and creative activities after their husbands died, said the same news source.Church’s husband, Peter, passed away in the 1990s and the women formed a friendship.Wallace-Hadrill, who grew up in Hampshire, first moved to the house following the death of her husband, John Michael Wallace-Hadrill, a historian.She taught English at St.

Hilda’s College, Oxford University, and served in the Women’s Royal Naval Service as a radio mechanic during World War II.While St.Hilda’s was an all-female college at the time, Wallace-Hadrill said, “We weren’t forbidden from seeing men.

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She said she enjoyed being at the university, adding that it was both “a lot of fun and a lot of work,” said SWNS.After graduating, Wallace-Hadrill worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary.“I was always interested in words,” she said.

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