FAMILY joined a spirited Jean Kimm on Thursday to celebrate a rare milestone, and all she wanted to do was drink at the local watering hole.
Mrs Kimm has turned 102, a feeling she described as “just another day”.
Mrs Kimm’s daughters, grandchildren and friends from the Glenarm Nursing Home were in attendance.
Daughters Lorraine Kimm and Faye Kimm were side-by-side with their mother as the staff wheeled out the massive chocolate cake.
Still as spritely as ever, when the Glenarm staff asked what she wanted to do for her birthday, Mrs Kimm responded, “to go to the pub and drink”.
Lorraine said her mother grew up on a farm at Goorambat, about 20km north of Benalla.
“She was the farm hand,” she said.
“Her job was to take the food out to the boys, and she had a pet chook.”
Mrs Kimm eagerly butted in, “always had morning tea with the chicken”.
“I didn’t have any dogs,” Mrs Kimm said.
She worked in the munitions factories in Melbourne during the war, where she met future husband George Kimm Junior.
“He had been injured on the frontline and got sent back to Melbourne,” Lorraine said.
Mrs Kimm and George would move to Quambatook in 1949, where they would raise Lorraine and Faye.
When Mrs Kimm was asked about her favourite life achievement, the diehard Carlton fan responded, “playing tennis for a very long time”.
“She was a great sportswoman,” Lorraine said.
Mrs Kimm didn’t have any advice on how to live a long life, but it was clear she still had an energetic outlook on it, even at 102.
