GERTRUDE Feldgrill doesn’t have any secret to long life – the 100-year-old said she was “normal”, aside from a bit of whiskey and flirting now and then.
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Ms Feldgrill celebrated her birthday on Thursday with a party at Jack Lonsdale Lodge in Sebastopol.
“I’m going now for the second hundred,” she said.
She is now the second centenarian at the Sebastopol home, with another resident turning 104 next week.
Ms Feldgrill received her letter from Queen Elizabeth II and one from Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove, who might be more to her liking.
“I’m looking for a third husband now,” she said. “A younger one, maybe in his 50s.”
Staff said Ms Feldgrill was a popular resident at the lodge, her wit keeping a smile on everyone’s face.
She keeps in touch with relatives in her native land of Germany, with nephew Gunther visiting her twice a year from Europe and calling every week.
Ms Feldgrill moved to Australia in 1954 to care for the children of an American family.
She remarried in 1986 after losing her first husband in WWII.
