WHEN asked the secrets to a healthy mind and body, 100-year-old Jean Jarman of Tuncurry says she doesn’t have any.
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Mrs Jarman says her longevity simply comes down to moving the body regularly and a good diet that doesn’t include “too much rubbish or alcohol.”
“I haven’t any secrets. It’s just a matter of having a good diet. I have never eaten a lot of rubbish. A glass of wine occasionally is nice or a beer on a hot day but I don’t get drunk,” she explains.
“Exercise and good living just being happy each day.”
Born on March 11, 1915 in Sandy Bay near Hobart, Jean is one of four siblings. She has a sister named Kit and two brothers John and George.
After completing primary and secondary schooling in Sandy Bay, Jean left for Sydney due to “little chances of work in Hobart.”
Her first job was as a live-in nanny looking after “two beautiful children” for a wealthy Sydney family before working in an office in a large factory.
'I have never eaten a lot of rubbish. A glass of wine occasionally is nice or a beer on a hot day but I don’t get drunk.'
- 100-year-old Jean Jarman
After being introduced to the love of her life, William Jarman, through a friend, the couple dated for a couple of years before marrying in 1944 at a church in Ashfield, Sydney.
Four years later and the couple’s first child was born – a daughter who they called Margaret followed by a son, Robert in 1950.
William sadly passed away in 1972 after complications with hip replacement surgery at Ryde Hospital. He was aged 61.
“We got along very well,” Mrs Jarman said.
“It was hard when he died I missed him very much.”
Jean was living with her daughter Margaret in Sydney for a number of years before relocating to Glacia House in Tuncurry last November.
Jean enjoyed a “nice lunch in the sun” with her son and daughter on the day of her birthday. Another lunch was then held for her on Saturday March 14 with her children and other family members including her four grandchildren and five great grandchildren at her son’s place in Diamond Beach.