In Colombiers, the Covid virus and all its hazards have not spared the Residential, its team and its residents. It is therefore with great pleasure that celebrating Yvette Olive’s 100th birthday has enabled us to reconnect, at the end of October, with conviviality and sharing. Since entering the retirement home fourteen years ago, the whole team had been keen to organize a small party the same day with the residents.
Romain Quinquilla and his collaborators invested themselves in making the meetings successful.
The mayor of the town and president of the Domitienne, Alain Caralp, also came to greet the centenary.
Yvette was born in the Eastern Pyrenees in Alenya on October 19, 1921. She spent part of her youth there until she married Maurice, a boy from the village.
Maurice is a peacekeeper, and with Yvette, they will leave for Béziers, which they will never leave.
The family is growing with four children, two boys, two girls.
The years go by, Yvette works in the education of the children. But Maurice died suddenly, leaving Yvette, at 45 years old alone with her children, the last one was only 10 years old.
He has to go to work to support the family. She will be a seamstress until her retirement. When asked about her best memories over the years, she answers straight away: my family! Indeed, today Yvette is still very surrounded with all her children, ten grandchildren, eighteen great-grandchildren, she is the three-grandmother of nine children!
Very flirtatious, smiling, Yvette received gifts and tokens of love from all her family before sharing a magnificent platter of sweets and posing for the photo.
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