105 and still gardening for Banstead's Phyllis (From Your Local Guardian)

105 and still gardening for Banstead's Phyllis

4:36pm Wednesday 14th October 2009 in

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When Phyllis Sutton first put in an appearance, Theodore Roosevelt was about to be re-elected as president of the USA, the first steps were being taken to construct the Panama Canal and England signed the Entente Cordiale with France.

Mrs Sutton, 105 last week, celebrated her special day quietly at her Banstead home with her son Charles and members of her family and friends.

She moved to Banstead in 1931 from Kingston Road, Leatherhead, and in the 1960s moved to the house next door while her former home was demolished.

Mr Sutton said: “She has always been keen on bird spotting – that and walking and gardening have been her main interests.”

Mrs Sutton was born in 1904, when the first telephone answering machine was invented, the first subway opened in New York and the first mainline electric train service in the UK took passengers between Liverpool and Southport.

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