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Much-loved Toowoomba woman to celebrate 108th birthday
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TOOWOOMBA'S Maren Hansen will celebrate an amazing milestone on Tuesday, when she blows out the candles on her 108th birthday cake.
Mrs Hansen is a resident at Salem Lutheran Rest Home and will be joined by staff, residents and members of her large extended family for a celebratory morning tea.
She has three children, 15 grandchildren, 37 great grandchildren and 11 great, great grandchildren.
Her eldest child Elsi Wieck, 80, said her mother was in great health and high spirits.
"She's always been a very positive person and very independent which is why she's lived as long as she has I think,'' she said.
"Whenever people have asked her in the past what her secret to long life is, she's said it's because she never eats cake but I'm not so sure about that because she used to bake beautiful cakes, including the most beautiful sponge cakes I've ever tasted.''
Mrs Hansen was born in Denmark and emigrated to Australia in 1936.
She married her Danish-born husband Emil a year later.
She and her husband owned and operated dairy farms on Queensland's Darling Downs most of their married life.
After Mr Hansen died at the age of 82, Mrs Hansen moved to Toowoomba where she lived with her sister for a number of years. She became a resident at Salem in 2010, at the age of 102.
Mrs Wieck said her mother was very happy at Salem, an aged care service operated by Lutheran Community Care.
"When the staff come in to her room with a cup of tea she always gives them the biggest smile.''
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