A STUDLEY man celebrated his 100th birthday with his 99-year-old wife by his side at the village’s Four Acres Care Home last week.
Arthur Forster marked the milestone with his wife of 72-years Kathleen on Thursday (March 24), surrounded by friends and family.
The couple celebrate their 73rd wedding anniversary on April 26 after tying the knot at St Mary’s Church in the village in 1943.
The young lovebirds met in Studley when they were both working in the needle industry. Arthur was lodging with an aunt at the time who happened to live just a few doors down from his future wife.
Arthur and Kathleen went on to have four children, two daughters and two sons, became grandparents to five grandsons and are now proud great-grandparents to four great-grandchildren.
Arthur, who received cards from The Queen and the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, was always a keen fisherman, gardener and loves spending time with his family.
The centenarian has a rather wry sense of humour too and said his secret for a long life was, simply, ‘don’t die’.
