From the desk of your roaming editor

Alex Purcell, Cooroy Rag Roaming Editor

IF my grandmother were still alive, she would have turned 101 this year. Sadly, she passed away six months shy of her 100th birthday.

She was a remarkable woman. Not only was she the first woman in Australia to survive having a brain tumour removed but she also endured having her left eye sewn up at the age of 40 after they severed the optic nerve during surgery.

She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother.

And for over 30 years, she lived alone.

Every opportunity we had, we would visit her in Toowoomba – buying her groceries, cooking her dinner and fixing her latest technological issue.

I would call her often: for advice, to discuss the latest state of the world, or just to chat.

And I know so did her four daughters, eight grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She was alone but she wasn’t lonely.

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