Olive Marston: 100 Years of Giving Back

0:00It's April 21st. Lester News today starts now, AI-powered and ready. Olive Marston, a 100-year-old from Heather in Lestershire, is turning 100 on April 21st, the same day the late Queen. Elizabeth II would have hit her own century. She got a special invite to Buckingham Palace for a royal reception honoring the Queen, but Olive turned it down flat. Why? She's got back-to-back parties in her village instead. The Palace event brings together the royal family. Charities tied to the Queen and other super centenarians getting their birthday cards straight from. King Charles III. Olive dubbed the Queen of Heather, already popped by the Palace back in 1999, to snack her MBE for decades of charity work. She's got a road name Marston Way after her and her portrait in the village hall. Folks in Heather can't get enough of her. Friends call Olive straight-up inspirational, always lighting up lies with her energy. Her motto? You can do it, Olive.

1:00Even after losing her husband Edward in 2022, she honors his wish by baking cakes weekly for the 40 ladies at her craft club. She's still knitting up a storm for charity, never slowing down, and her seven great-grandchildren are skipping school early for the bash. The craft club flips the script this time, baking their own treats for her, and St. John the Baptist Church rings bells at 5 p.m. on her big day. Olive's life sums up giving back raise Christian, surrounded by love and proving age is just a number, while the village throws the party of the year.