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Health tips from Langley’s Anna Nielsen, 109: ‘Porridge and sunshine’
BY GLENDA LUYMES, THE PROVINCE APRIL 4, 2013
LANGLEY, B.C.; APRIL 04, 2013 --Great granddaughter Shannan Hickey helps Anna Nielsen celebrates her 109 th birthday with family and friends at the Langley Garden Retirement Home in Langley on Thursday April 04, 2013. (Les Bazso / PNG staff photo) ( For Glenda Luymes story )
Photograph by: Les Bazso , PRV
She was born on a Saturday, a few months after the Wright brothers first took flight.
She grew up during the construction of the Panama Canal.
When she was eight, the Titanic sank.
Langley’s Anna Nielsen turned 109 this week. The centenarian celebrated her birthday Thursday with music and a sheet cake at a party attended by two of her daughters, several grandkids, great-grandkids and a great-great-grandson.
“I feel really fortunate to have my mom at this age,” Anna’s 73-year-old daughter, Lula Hepperle, told The Province. “When I count the blessings in my life, she’s one of them.”
A great-great-great Grandma five times over, Nielsen has lived in Canada since 1927, when she moved from Denmark to New Brunswick with her husband, Aage. From there they moved to a farm in Ontario, and finally, in the 1940s, settled in Vancouver.
She took a cleaning job at the Orpheum Theatre, but often told her six children stories about life on the farm, growing vegetables and making butter.
She was a practical mother, said Hepperle. “She always said worry never gets you anywhere.”
She was frugal, but a good cook. She loved cards, didn’t drink, but smoked for a time. “She always told us she didn’t inhale,” said her daughter with a laugh.
In 1989, Aage died. The couple had been married 62 years.
Although Nielsen does not talk very much any more, she is beloved by fellow residents at her care home, where she greets each one by taking a hand and kissing it. At her party, she sat quietly as her family used their cellphones to take pictures of her wearing a pink birthday crown.
So what’s the secret to her longevity?
“She always told me: Eat your porridge, and get out into the sunshine,” said her granddaughter Shannan Hickey.
“I didn’t like it as a kid, but I eat porridge now.”
B.C.'s oldest residents:
The B.C. Vital Statistics Agency does not keep records on the province’s oldest residents, except to note their passing.
However, according to the online Gerontology Research Group, Canada’s oldest living person calls B.C. home. Merle Barwis is 112 years old, and she’s listed among 57 verified supercentenarians (people aged 110 and older) in the world.
There are dozens of other international supercentenarians whose ages have not been completely verified.
According to GRG, the world’s oldest living person is a Japanese man, Jiroemon Kimura, aged 115 years. He must live seven more years to surpass the world’s oldest person, France’s Jeanne Calment, who lived to be 122 before her death in 1997.
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