Wow, my Mum went to her 60 year school reunion, and one of her teachers was there

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The teacher is a 101 years old, and she also taught me. We were working out how old she had been when she taught me and she must have been early 60s, if you'd asked me at the time I would have thought that she was in her late 40s so she obviously aged more slowly than normal all through her adult life.

Apparently she stopped driving a couple of years ago, and as she's getting on a bit she will be moving into a care home in a few weeks time.

What a heart warming story. I bet that lady saw huge changes during her time in the classroom, as well as in life generally.

Wow! That's wonderful. I hope I'm still that with it when I get old!

DrIris I wish I was that with it NOW.

The 20th century was a pretty fast-moving era, wasn't it FrogFairy. My grandmother was about the same age, she died at 95 about a decade ago, and almost every aspect of her life and environment changed quite drastically over her lifespan.

The primary school teacher of a friend of mine who is 69 only died a few months ago.

Wow! That must have been amazing!

That's pretty awesome!

We met my mum's old headmistress a few years ago, she was serving communion at Midnight Mass in the cathedral of mum's home city. She still remembered mum some 50 years after leaving school!

I'm 46, and the classroom assistant from when I was 5 is still going strong - she's 97 now. I know this as she kindly has my mum, who taught at the same school, and is 77 round every week for tea. Mum hasn't aged as well and has dementia but before she retired she taught the children and some grandchildren of her pupils

That’s a lovely story op.