Birthday buddies and next-door neighbors turn 101 on same day

Imagine surviving adjacent doorway to a neighbour who is precisely your property and who shares the precise aforesaid birthday.

Josie Church and Anne Wallace-Hadrill cognize each astir this. They besides cognize astir longevity — and a batch of luck. 

The 2 women person lived side-by-side since the 1980s.

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The great-grandmothers were besides calved connected the aforesaid time successful 1924 — April 1 — according to quality bureau SWNS. 

Said Josie Church, "I deliberation beingness has gone rather quickly."

Anne Wallace-Hadrill (left) and Josie Church are pictured extracurricular their homes successful Oxford, Oxfordshire, connected March 26, 2025. (SWNS)

She added of her neighbour successful Oxford, successful the U.K., "Anne was precise engaged erstwhile she was younger — truthful was I — and was precise productive and creative. She did a batch of coating and tapestry, and she was ever busy, and I was ever engaged doing thing else, determination else, due to the fact that that's the benignant of beingness we live."

She besides said, "I don't deliberation we've thought overmuch astir the clip passing. It's conscionable passed."

"I don't deliberation we've thought overmuch astir the clip passing. It's conscionable passed."

Both women were precise progressive successful volunteering and originative activities aft their husbands died, said the aforesaid quality source.

Church's husband, Peter, passed distant successful the 1990s and the women formed a friendship.

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Wallace-Hadrill, who grew up successful Hampshire, archetypal moved to the location pursuing the decease of her husband, John Michael Wallace-Hadrill, a historian.

She taught English astatine St. Hilda’s College, Oxford University, and served successful the Women’s Royal Naval Service arsenic a vigor mechanic during World War II.

While St. Hilda’s was an all-female assemblage astatine the time, Wallace-Hadrill said, "We weren’t forbidden from seeing men. We were expected to unrecorded decent lives."

Next-door neighbors Anne Wallace-Hadrill (left) and Josie Church volition observe their shared 101st day connected April 1. (SWNS)

She said she enjoyed being astatine the university, adding that it was some "a batch of amusive and a batch of work," said SWNS.

After graduating, Wallace-Hadrill worked arsenic a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary. "I was ever funny successful words," she said. "It was my trade."

She was rather proud, she said, to person a medal for her work from the Royal Navy past year; it was described arsenic "long overdue" by the typical who gave it to her.

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Originally from Manchester, Church did her grooming astatine Preston Royal Infirmary and remembers the instauration of the National Health Service (NHS). She said the grooming was "three years of hard work."

Said Church, "In those days, you had to unrecorded in, and you couldn't get married, and it was precise strict. People wouldn't enactment up with that benignant of beingness now."

Her clip successful nursing during World War II included a "chilling" acquisition of caring for SS German soldiers. "They weren’t precise nice," Church said. "They didn’t privation to beryllium taken attraction of by us. They were precise hard patients."

Josie Church (left) and Anne Wallace-Hadrill person lived side-by-side successful Oxford since the 1980s. "You conscionable spell connected from 1 happening to another," Church said. (SWNS)

She moved with her hubby to Oxford truthful helium could proceed his grade astatine University College — which was interrupted by the warfare — and they "lived the beingness of an undergraduate."

Half of the undergraduates had been to war, she said, portion the different fractional were young students who were conscionable matriculating.

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"Oxford was precise unusual due to the fact that each assemblage had a ample intake of older radical who’d gone done the warfare and were taking up their assemblage places," said Church. "So you’d get the aged men and past the young 18-year-olds coming successful from school."

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After marrying, Church worked for a portion and looked aft her family. Her hubby was a housemaster astatine a boys’ boarding schoolhouse and she was the location caregiver — truthful she had an "interesting" fewer years looking aft 120 boys.

She has 3 "wonderful" children, she shared: Chris, Pamela and Andrew.

Meanwhile, Wallace-Hadrill's lad James lives successful Poole and her lad Andrew successful Cambridge.

"It was wonderful. We had a beauteous day," said 1 of the women astir a day enactment thrown for them by their neighbors. (iStock)

The 2 women said they don’t retrieve the infinitesimal they discovered they stock the aforesaid day — but they enjoyed the celebrations arranged for them past year, SWNS reported.

"We unrecorded connected the astir astonishing road. It’s similar 1 big, extended family," said Church. "Everybody knows everybody else. If you person a problem, you conscionable springiness a outcry and idiosyncratic volition come."

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"It was wonderful. We had a beauteous time past year," she said, referencing the women's 100th day celebration. "It was rather unexpected due to the fact that I didn’t cognize thing astir it. It's conscionable an astonishing street. I deliberation we are lucky."

"We unrecorded connected the astir astonishing road. It’s similar 1 big, extended family."

As for tips astir starring a agelong life: "Just live," advised Church. "There's not overmuch you tin do. You conscionable spell connected from 1 happening to the next."

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She added, "You bash what seems to request doing, and past you bash that, and past thing other takes its place. You conscionable spell connected from 1 happening to another."

She besides said, "We don't technologist our lives. I deliberation they've conscionable engineered us."