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Wee County great-great gran celebrates her 100th birthday with family

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A much-loved great-great-grandmother has celebrated her 100th birthday in style surrounded by five generations of her family.Centenarian Elizabeth (Betty) Taylor, who was part of the Land Army during World War II, spent her milestone birthday on August 10 at Meallmore’s Parklands Care Home in Alloa.Betty was born Elizabeth Schot in 1923 in Edinburgh and spent her early years living in the Leith district of the city.The youngest of seven children, Betty remembers a wonderful childhood in a loving, charitable family that cooked meals for people in need in Edinburgh.Following school, Betty joined the Women’s Land Army where she worked as an electric welder during the Second World War in Dundee.After the conflict, Betty married Frank Muirhead in 1946 and they moved to Tillicoultry in Clackmannanshire.Together, they had four children – Dougie, Selma, Josie, and Billy.Sadly, Betty was widowed at 42 years old.In 1977, when Betty was in her 50s, she married Jimmy Taylor and together they enjoyed many holidays.

Betty always loved travelling, with a particular highlight being a venture across the Atlantic to New York on the Queen Elizabeth 2 ocean liner, returning to the UK by flying on Concorde.

Her passion for adventure continued well into her later years when she went on a solo trip to New Zealand for six weeks at the age of 80.Betty always put her children first, working around them.

Prior to retiring, she had various jobs including waitressing, bartending, cleaning, and baking for a café in Dollar.Betty officially retired when she was 60, but her work wasn’t done.

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