Australian woman celebrates 108th birthday

CANBERRA, Sept. 15 (Chinese media) -- One of Australia's oldest women, Nellie

Bowley, celebrated her 108th birthday in the southern Queensland town of

Killarney on Monday.

Her birth in September 1900 predated Australia' s federation by several

months.

Bowley, now living at the Kadimah Nursing Home, is still enjoying life,

according to the home's administration manager, Denise Tattam.

Though Ms Bowley has difficulty hearing, she still walks, with the help of

a walker, and has a "wicked" sense of humor, Australian Associated Press quoted

Tattam as saying.

"It's wonderful when you sit there and ask her about things that to me and

you, they are history. But she lived it, and she's still got an incredible

recollection of things," Tattam said, adding that the centenarian "still got

quality of life. She's in a nursing home but the quality is still there."

Bowley moved into the nursing facility less than three years ago -- at age

105 -- when she could no longer cope with winters in the home she had lived in

for most of her life.

Tattam said Bowley celebrated her latest birthday at a morning tea with

family at the nursing home on Sunday, followed by a second morning tea with

residents on Monday.