ROSALIND Page celebrated her 100th birthday in South Pool last week.

Since 2014, Rosalind has lived in Kingsbridge, but she returned to her roots in South Pool to celebrate her hundredth birthday.

More than a hundred guests, including family and village friends, joined her for a birthday garden party looking across the valley to South Pool church, a place that has always brought her joy.

With glorious sunshine, good food and drink and great company, it made for the perfect day.

Rosalind was born in Exeter on May 27, 1916. Her mother’s maiden name was Pollard, and the family were, and still are, a family of printers. The firm still thrives as William Pollard and Co in Sowton, Exeter.

Rosalind was educated at The Maynard School in Exeter, when the annual fee was just £7. She then went on to read French at Somerville College, Oxford in 1935, graduating in 1938.

Following graduation, she taught at Hele’s School in Exeter - the male teachers having been called up to fight in the Second World War.

In May 1942, both her family home and the printing works were bombed and completely destroyed during the Exeter blitz. She then joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service, and served at various locations in the south of England until the end of the war.

After the war, Rosalind and her husband John moved to Surrey, and in 1947 to Laleham, where Rosalind worked in the local primary school.

They made their family home in Laleham until 1983, after which they moved to South Pool, where they had owned a holiday home since 1955.

Rosalind became a great supporter of South Pool church and was a churchwarden there for several years. She was also active in the South Hams Society and Devon Churches.

Rosalind has two children, Jonathan and Julie; two grandchildren, Polly and Timothy and four great-grandchildren, Charlie, Daisy, Matilda and Eleanor.