Stuff during an interview just before her birthday.
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Lena Walker accepts a present from great-great-granddaughter Harper Dhillon (2) at her 109th birthday. “I always laugh and people always say, ‘you laugh too much’. My sister used to say, ‘stop that noise’ because she was older than me,” Walker said. She was believed to be the oldest living Kiwi born in New Zealand, with just two Kiwis older than her born in Canada and the United Kingdom respectively. Evelyn “Lena” Wilkinson was born on June 11, 1912, in the small Horowhenua town of Shannon.
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Lena Walker, nee Wilkinson – pictured left – looked very similar to her sister Louisa, who was always teasing her about laughing too loudly.