When she was a child, Rose Burton rode her horse to school and had to milk the cows on her family's farm.
Now a resident of the Carinity Wishart Gardens aged care home in Brisbane, Rose is celebrating her milestone 100th birthday.
She was born Roselyn Hubner in Laidley on 19 December 1925. The second eldest of seven children, she grew up on the family dairy farm.
Rose recalls riding her horse, Major, to and from school. He would baulk if a car passed by, as motor vehicles weren't a common sight in the Lockyer Valley area in the 1930s.
At age 10, Rose started learning the organ at the home of a Lutheran Church pastor. These childhood lessons were put to good use later in life, as Rose served as the organist for her church for many years.
Rose was also a keen young sportswoman, captaining her school basketball team. She also played vigoro.
After leaving school having completed Grade 7, Rose went to work cleaning houses and businesses, one of which was a bank in Laidley which she had to complete after hours.
Rose married her husband, Jack Burton, in Hatton Vale in August 1945, one week before the end of World War II. Rose used ration cards to obtain the fabric to make her wedding dress.
After they were married, the couple bought a house in North Ipswich before moving into their family home in East Ipswich, which Rose's father and brother built.
In the early-1960s the Burtons, who were raising two daughters, bought a corner store in Ipswich and Rose became a working mother.
"They had a very early version of a checkout and shopping trolleys, which were not common at the time," Rose's daughter, Juleene Risson said of the shop.
Rose and Jack moved to the Sunshine Coast in the 1980s. In 1983, they embarked on an overseas trip which would take them around the world, visiting various countries on their journey. Sadly, Jack passed away soon after.
Rose then lived on the Gold Coast for a few years, before moving into independent living in Sunnybank. In 2014, she moved to the Carinity Gardens Wishart residential home, where her younger sister Myra Seymore also lives.
Juleene said Rose, who has five grandchildren and nine great grandchildren, is still "very keen on sports - anything that involves a ball."
"She loves tennis and commonly would sleep during the day so she could stay up all night to watch Wimbledon," Juleene said.
"She was especially keen to watch Queenslanders excel in their sport. She loved to watch the likes of Allan Langer and Ash Barty.
"As her grandchildren and great grandchildren grew, she enjoyed watching them either playing sport or in performances."
Family and friends from as far away as Melbourne, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast helped Rose celebrate her milestone birthday, as she was inducted into the Carinity 100 Club for centenarians.
Rose is the second Carinity Wishart Gardens resident to turn 100 in the past month, after Rosa Tominich became a centenarian in November.
