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Mrs Donaldson\u2019s sons, Roger and Peter Donaldson travelled from California and Sydney respectively to celebrate their mum this week, and will hold a party with 84 members of family, and friends, at the Swiss Mountain hotel on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of Roger\u2019s kids are coming from London, New York, Auckland, Brisbane… The whole family\u2019s turning up,\u201d Peter said.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on their mother\u2019s life, they are proud of how worldly she is.<\/p>\n
\u201cMum\u2019s always loved to travel and she\u2019s got stories of her travels all over the world,\u201d Roger said.<\/p>\n
Ms Donaldson has been passionate about seeing the whole globe, but Pakistan was a standout.<\/p>\n
\u201cI loved all of my trips, especially camping in the Hindu Kush… Travelling on the Karakorum Highway from Pakistan into far western China,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Peter and Roger think they\u2019re pretty \u201clucky guys\u201d to still enjoy their mum\u2019s company.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s still very much involved with the world, sees more movies than I see, reads the newspaper, and even though she\u2019s having trouble with her sight and mobility, her brain\u2019s still 100 per cent,\u201d Roger said.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s very philosophical about her life and age. There are not many people you can talk to about what it was like 90 years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you stack her up against people who are 100, there\u2019s not many who have as much get-up-and-go, drive and good stories as she has… While mum\u2019s alive, we\u2019re still \u2018the boys,\u2019\u201d Roger said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A FORMER member of the Women\u2019s Air Force, Ballarat\u2019s Dorothy Donaldson marked her one hundredth birthday on Tuesday at the Ballarat Airport. In the company of the Air Force Association Ballarat Branch community she reflected on her life, including time in the Air Force, joining in 1941, and marrying her former fighter pilot husband. \u201cBeing […]<\/p>\n