By Lachlan Ellis<\/p>\n
The year is 1922, Vegemite was invented; King Ingoda won the Melbourne Cup and Fitzroy won the VFL grand final by 11-points over Collingwood.
\nIn North America, Bette Webster (nee Butterworth) was born on 15 July, 100-years ago, and has lived to celebrate ten decades of blowing out the candles.
\nNow living in Bacchus Marsh for the past 40-years, the occasion has been celebrated with a party at her local aged car facility.
\nBette Webster was joined by her only living daughter Maurise Davies, celebrating with staff at Providence Aged Care.
\nMs Davies said family meant everything to her mum, and though she \u201ccould be stern when she needed to be\u201d, she had a big heart.
\nFrom a working-class family in Northern England, Ms Davies said the Websters lived a basic life, but \u201cMum would always find money to buy Christmas presents\u201d.
\n\u201cShe didn\u2019t put up with nonsense, but she was loving and made do, we never had a lot. Like most people in that area, I guess we were a bit underprivileged\u2026but she always made sure we got fed and were clothed in those cold English conditions,\u201d Ms Davies told the Moorabool News.
\n\u201cFinding money for Christmas was hard, but she always made sure we got a big Christmas present and some little ones in the stockings that hung on the fireplace.\u201d
\nBette Webster was born in Canada to English immigrants, returning to England with her family at around the age of five. At the age of 15, she won a pageant in her native Yorkshire and was named \u2018Miss Industry 1938\u2019 \u2013 an achievement Maurise says her mum would \u201ctell anyone about who\u2019d listen\u201d.
\nShe met her husband Ron at a dance, and the two married when Bette was 17 and Ron was 19, before moving to Australia in 1962.
\nMs Davies said she \u201cabsolutely adored Ron\u201d who passed away in 1992, and \u201cloves her family\u2026she didn\u2019t need a lot of friends if she had family around\u201d.
\nBette Webster had five children (and has outlived all but Maurise), and has 15 grandchildren, 29 great grandchildren, and six great great grandchildren.
\nTurning 100 has some benefits, with Ms Webster receiving a birthday card from HRH 96-year old Queen Elizabeth II, the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Governor General David Hurley and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Lachlan Ellis The year is 1922, Vegemite was invented; King Ingoda won the Melbourne Cup and Fitzroy won the VFL grand final by 11-points over Collingwood. In North America, Bette Webster (nee Butterworth) was born on 15 July, 100-years ago, and has lived to celebrate ten decades of blowing out the candles. Now living […]<\/p>\n