Former Toowoomba resident celebrates 102nd birthday

SPORT and music have been a part of life for Bolton Clarke Centenarian Club member Jean Le Brocq, who celebrated her 102nd birthday on the Sunshine Coast.

LOVING LIFE: Former Toowoomba resident Jean Le Brocq celebrated her 102nd birthday last week on the Sunshine Coast. Picture: Contributed

SPORT and music have been a part of life for Bolton Clarke Centenarian Club member Jean Le Brocq, who celebrated her 102nd birthday this week on the Sunshine Coast.

Jean, who lives at the Tantula Rise residential aged care community at Alexandra Headland, was born in Toowoomba on March 11, 1917 and grew up on her family's sheep station.

"I came into life early in the morning, at about 5 o'clock," Mrs Le Brocq said.

"We lived in Surat on the Condamine River in western Queensland."

Jean was one of six children, two boys and four girls, in a musical family.

"We had a television and listened to music every night, and church once a month," she said.

Mrs Le Brocq and one brother played the violin, while her sisters played piano.

"Dad played piano too, and Mum played the piano and the organ," she added.

Jean went to boarding school at Fairholme, Toowoomba for five years where she played basketball and tennis and also enjoyed dancing.

She later took up golf and bowls, which she continued to play well into her 90s.

She was also involved in the CWA and travelled to meetings across the region.

"I did a lot of knitting and I had a lot of boys I used to write to," she says.

"I used to write to them and knit jumpers and socks for them."

She married twice, raising two sons in Ashgrove in Brisbane before moving to the Sunshine Coast with second husband Phil.

Originally published as Former Toowoomba resident celebrates 102nd birthday