Perth, Western Australia (Old Edition) Home News Time Out Letters Write a Letter Special Coverage Walsham Classifieds Search Real Estate Trades & Services Submit About Contact Us Advertising Legal	Sport-lover Eva hits 100 Eva Muir and her daughter Marjorie share a quiet moment durin the birthday celebrations. A few new nail-varnish colours, a facial and a sing along with a choir were some of the 100th birthday treats for Eva Muir. "I'm a little nervous," she said as family, friends and civic leaders began arriving for her party at the Koh I Noor nursing home in Wembley. But she was soon joining in the singing of What a Wonderful World and One Day at a Time, Sweet Jesus. Former neighbours from Dalkeith, where she lived in Viking Road for 44 years until she was 95, brought flowers. Others who lived in Bencubbin in the Wheatbelt when Eva and her husband Tom lived there in the 1940s brought photographs of the couple at tennis parties. Speaking with the gentle burr of folk from the east of Scotland, Mrs Muir said she had not lost her accent though she had lived in Australia since 1926. "Whenever I go back to Scotland they tell me I sound different, but people here tell me I sound Scottish," she said. Eva Graham Robb was born in Pitlochry, not far from Perth in Scotland in 1902. She met Tom Muir at primary school and he carried her books for her. Later they both joined the Pitlochry Gilbert and Sullivan Society. "The Yeoman of the Guard was my favourite," said Mrs Muir. They saved for two years before migrating to WA and marrying at Scots Church, Fremantle, on Christmas Eve 1927. Their only child, Marjorie, was born in 1934 and they later moved to Bencubbin where they had a 1214ha (3000 acre) sheep and wheat farm. Today Mrs Muir has three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Always a keen golfer she said she'd been following the US PGA Championship on TV this week. Marjorie Griffiths said her mother was also fond of football tipping. "The first thing she asks me when she sees me on Monday is, "How did I do with the footy tipping?'" Mrs Griffiths said. Mrs Muir was a little reticent about making a forecast for the AFL grand final, and said her general advice was no drinking or smoking. Well known for her sense of fun, Mrs Muir went for a ride around Wembley on a Harley Davidson tricycle when she was 97. A year earlier she catalogued all her family photographs, dating them and listing the names of everyone in them, including those from her youth in Scotland. Independent Churchlands MP Liz Constable presented Mrs Muir with greeting cards from the Queen, the Governor-General, the Prime Minister and other civic leaders. Mrs Muir passed them around but said she would hang on to the one from WA Premier Geoff Gallop. BACK TO TOP < PREVIOUS - HOME - NEXT> Copyright © 1999 - 2006 Post Newspapers Pty Ltd. All rights reserved.