• Berwick Gazette
• Pakenham Gazette

By Melissa Meehan

30th June 2010 02:00:51 AM

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Ursula Munday with daughter Joan Fenn, granddaughter Kim Gratton and great grandson Ben, 2.

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URSULA Munday has 100 reasons to celebrate.

Next week she will celebrate her 100th birthday with family and friends and is looking forward to receiving a letter from the Queen.

The youngest of seven children, Mrs Munday has lived a full life and has seen the world change.

She remembers horse-drawn trams and the excitement of electric streetlights being installed in South Melbourne where she grew up and saw two of her brothers survive Gallipoli. Mrs Munday left school at 14 to care for her mother, who was left disabled by a stroke, and went to business school after her mother passed away. She survived the Great Depression and married in 1939. Her daughter Joan Fenn said she and her brother Paul loved to hear stories about her parents’ honeymoon and the life they built together.

“Sadly Dad died when we were teenagers but Mum managed by cleaning houses or working as a tea lady,” Joan said. “After we left home, Mum sold the family home and moved to a flat in Elsternwick where she joined the ladies’ golf club. “She describes those as the best days in her life.”

On 4 July, Mrs Munday and her two children, their spouses, her five grandchildren, their partners and one great grandchild will celebrate the momentous occasion.

As for a tip for longevity: “I’m happy and have always tried to be. I’m not an angry person.”

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