A WOMAN who whose first job after leaving school was in service to a government minister, celebrates her 100th birthday today.

Dulcie Maxim worked at the home of George Isaacs in East Molesley, Surrey, where Mrs Maxim was born and brought up.

She remained in service until she married her husband Arthur in 1933.

He was from Barnehurst and the couple made their family home in Willersley Avenue, Sidcup.

When her husband went off to war, Mrs Maxim went back to work, this time for one of the Western Brothers, a vaudeville act who were actually second cousins.

The couple had three sons.

Mr Maxim who worked in the printing industry, died nine years ago and Mrs Maxim moved out of their home five years later and now lives in Northbourne Court care home in Sidcup.

She has six grandchildren, eight great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.

The middle child of three sisters and a brother, one of her younger sisters, in her 90s, is still alive in South Africa.

One of Mrs Maxim’s birthday celebrations was with fellow members of the Disabled Christian Fellowship at Sidcup Baptist Church in Main Road, Sidcup.