'I pray to God every time,' Violet Smith said as she described her secret to reaching the milestone.
After staying in Durban for a while, the family moved to Ladysmith, where Smith’s father had passed away.
Her niece, Cynthia Harper, who, with her brother Tony, was adopted by Smith following Cynthia’s father’s death, described her aunt as a passionate dressmaker while they stayed in Noordgesig. "Everybody of the same age had the same pattern, and then, after Christmas, we had to go collect the money and then they would say, 'I don’t have money now'.""That is my mother. She has a good heart. She was good to everybody. She has always been like this. She had four children, but she probably raised 40 more," her daughter, Isabel, 63, said.
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