IN JAMAICA: HAPPY BIRTHDAY Neressa Graham, 100 y-o, makes nothing bother....Born in Chantilly, Manchester on October 18, 1914...."Me and my brother used to play cricket. I was a little tomboy," Graham said, laughing. "I used to climb tree, pick orange and tangerine."

BY DONNA HUSSEY-WHYTE Sunday Observer staff reporter husseyd@jamaicaobserver.com  Sunday, October 26, 2014    

FAMILY members of Neressa Graham, who celebrated her 100th birthday on October 18, strongly believe that because she does not worry about things that would generally affect others, she has experienced long life.

"She live this long because she has never made anything bother her up to this day, no matter what happen," the centenarian's eldest grandchild 46-year-old Garfield Peart told the Jamaica Observer on Thursday. "When grandfather died she didn't cry, she didn't do anything, that's how she has been ever since. No matter what, it doesn't bother her.

"January made one year since she lost her leg and she didn't really worry about losing it," said Graham's son, Azariah Graham, 59, who journeyed from England where he lives, for his mother's birthday. "She don't worry about anything," he went on.

Born in Chantilly, Manchester on October 18, 1914, the centenarian grew up with her sole sibling, Leford, and parents Georgiana Campbell and Charles Webster. She attended the Zion Hill Baptist School in Bombay, Manchester.

"Me and my brother used to play cricket. I was a little tomboy," Graham said, laughing. "I used to climb tree, pick orange and tangerine."

And that 'tomboy' attitude was still a part of Graham's way of life until she was in her 80s and had to be encouraged by family members to stop climbing trees. more