Happy Birthday Ilse

Ilse Checchini celebrated her 100th birthday in style at Trentham Aged Care on Friday, July 7.

In attendance were Hepburn Shire Council Mayor Cr Brian Hood, members of the Trentham Lions Club - which donated one of the cakes, members of the Trentham Ladies Hospital Auxiliary and Ilse's daughters Marina Checchini and Hannelore Lindner. Ilse has been a resident at Trentham Aged Care since January 2019. The great-great-grandmother went through World War II in Germany and arrived in Australia in March 1950.

Ilse was very good at sewing, making all her daughters' clothes which then led to her opening children’s fashion business Sigi Kinderwear. She won three wool awards with the last one being the Supreme Wool Award for her designs in 1970 from the Australian Wool Board.