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Essequibo’s oldest, May Garraway, is 102
May Garraway accredits her longevity to God. She is also of the opinion that
May Garraway
her being around for 102 years must have been the result of a good deed on her part.
The 102-year-old Pomeroon resident, who celebrated her 102nd birth anniversary on May 3, amazingly continues to enjoy favorable health, except for blurred vision.
The mother of ten, four of whom are alive today, celebrated her birthday with a thanksgiving service, at the Seventh Day Baptist Church, Grant Mainstay, Lower Pomeroon River, yesterday.
Aunt May as she is commonly known, showered praises on God for allowing her to observe another birth anniversary.
Her daughter, Joyce Garraway, is currently her caregiver. The centenarian enjoys chicken and thrives on metagee and fish. She is the lone member of her family to have lived past five decades.
Born in 1910, on May 3, to David Alexander a/k David Miller and Georgeina Welcome May Garraway, she grew up in Hackney, Pomeroon. She attended a Roman Catholic School as well as a Brethren School at Hackney, along with her siblings, all of whom are deceased.
But her school life was short-lived, according to Aunt May, who said due to the adaptable culture of Agriculture, which continues to be the practice of residents in the Pomeroon. She recalled working with her siblings on the farm planting mainly ground provision, which supplemented her parents’ income.
According to Aunt May, there are numerous accolades attached to her name, but the most outstanding she acquired for delivering more than 200 babies, at Hackney, a job she said she enjoyed during her younger years.
She said that she was never married, worked as a seamstress and also farmed. She single-handedly took care of her ten children.
May Garraway has 70 grand children and 108 great-grandchildren.
Her advice is to “fear God and keep his commandments.”
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