{"id":3662107,"date":"2022-09-05T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpcluster.dctdigital.com\/thecourier\/?post_type=fp&#038;p=3662107"},"modified":"2022-09-05T11:48:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T10:48:29","slug":"lilian-morrison","status":"publish","type":"fp","link":"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/news\/angus-mearns\/3662107\/lilian-morrison\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Lilian Morrison who farmed soft fruit at Forfar dies aged 105"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"before-the-content-hook-1\" class=\"content-hook\"><\/div><p>Lilian Morrison, who was born during the First World War and farmed with her late husband near Forfar, has died aged 105.<\/p>\n<p>She was born in Auchenblae, a village once noted for its high number of centenarians.<\/p>\n<p>Longevity seems to have run in the genes of the family. Her mother, Helen, lived until she was 96.<\/p>\n<p>By coincidence, her mother&#8217;s sister, Isabel, married Carse of Gowrie farmer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/news\/perth-kinross\/949664\/tributes-paid-to-scotlands-oldest-man-alf-smith-from-tayside-after-he-passes-away\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alf Smith<\/a>, who lived to be 111 and one of Britain&#8217;s oldest people.<\/p>\n<p>Lilian was born in Auchenblae to John and Helen Davidson. Her father was a ploughman before training as a stonemason.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"embed--image__container\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4290526 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcluster.dctdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2022\/09\/Lillian-Morrison_obit-3bgorv490-940x564.jpg\" alt=\"Lilian Morrison and her grandson, Alistair, in the 1980s and as a child with her brother Robert.\" \/> <\/div>\n\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text caption\">Lilian Morrison and her grandson, Alistair, in the 1980s and as a child with her brother Robert.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>She was educated in the village and left school aged 14 to begin work in service at the home of a local banker.<\/p>\n<p>After a spell working in service in Laurencekirk, Lilian moved to Peebles to work with a\u00a0 family before returning to Auchenblae to look after her grandmother.<\/p>\n<p>Her next appointment was at Slatefield Farm, Forfar, where she was employed to look after the farmer&#8217;s elderly wife.<\/p>\n<p>There she met the farmer&#8217;s son, George Morrison, and fell in love.<\/p>\n<h2>Married life<\/h2>\n<p>The couple married at Dundee Registrar&#8217;s Office in June, 1938 went and on to have three of a family, Edith, Mary and George, known as Donald.<\/p>\n<p>Together they raised a family at Slatefield, who all chipped in during the busy berry season.<\/p>\n<p>Barrels of strawberries and raspberries were sent to jam factories in Dundee and Manchester and, in later years, to the canning factories of Lockwoods, Forfar, Smedley&#8217;s, Dundee, and Chivers in Montrose.<\/p>\n<p>As retirement approached, George and Lilian built a cottage on the farm but the couple did not have many years there as George died aged 69.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"embed--image__container\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4288525 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcluster.dctdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2022\/08\/medw-lillian-morrison-100-2_22193252-19pe51yui-846x564.jpg\" alt=\"Lilian Morrison celebrating on her 100th birthday with son Donald and daughter Mary Thomson.\" \/> <\/div>\n\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text caption\">Lilian Morrison celebrating on her 100th birthday with son Donald and daughter Mary Thomson.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>However, Lilian lived independently at the cottage until she was 103 and it was only for her last 18 months there that she required a carer to call.<\/p>\n<p>Donald said: &#8220;She was teetotal and it was only at her 90th birthday party when we opened a bottle of champagne that she had her first drink and quite enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I suppose longevity is in the family genes but she was never on any medicine in her life until a few months before she died.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In later life, Lilian was introduced to lawn bowling through her sister&#8217;s husband, Dave Urquhart of Meigle, and was a frequent player at Meigle bowling green in summer and at the indoor bowling in Arbroath in the winter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dct.myfamilyannouncements.co.uk\/dundee\/view\/4886493\/morrison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You can read the family&#8217;s announcement here.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"after-the-content-hook-1\" class=\"content-hook\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lilian Morrison, who was born during the First World War and farmed with her late husband near Forfar, has died aged 105.","protected":false},"author":7036,"featured_media":3662497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"esio_related_content":"yes","esio_send_to_subbed":"","send_to_es":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false},"categories":[17,21],"tags":[640,236,11891],"newsletter-control":[],"url":"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/news\/angus-mearns\/3662107\/lilian-morrison\/","author_name":"Chris Ferguson","author_image_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5fc1e4db55ab53b3cde752f897e8221c?s=64&d=blank&r=g","featured_image_url":"https:\/\/wpcluster.dctdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/09\/medw-lillian-morrison-100-3_22193257-20dix3bue-scaled-e1662034025996-2ggd0t2wx-940x564.jpg","acf":{"curated_content_flag":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.1 (Yoast SEO v21.1) - 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