| Gladys Buttle | |
 Buttle at 100 years old | |
| Birth: | 5 July 1913 Dinnington, Yorkshire, England |
| Death: | 3 October 2017 Newark, Nottinghamshire, England |
| Age: | 104 years, 90 days |
| Country: |  ENG, UK
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| Centenarian | |
Gladys Amy Buttle (neé Black; 5th July 1913 - 3rd October 2017) was a British centenarian who was noted as being the oldest resident of Newark at the time being resident in a care home and presumably was until her death in 2017.
Biography[]
Gladys Amy Black was born in Dinnington, England on the 5th July 1913 to Arthur Black and Elizabeth Hunt. The family often moved around due to Arthur's work as a coal miner and they would eventually settle down in Mexborough, near to Doncaster in England also. She had four brothers and three sisters. Her brother Charles Jesse would live to be 85, her father and sister Mary would both live to be 82. The Blacks ran a convenience store at their home in Mexborough, selling baked goods involving Arthur putting dough in to rise before he would undertake his shift at the coal mine in Manvers.
After leaving school, she went into day service and then worked as an under-housemaid in Buxton before moving to Nottingham around 1937. She met a farmer called John Sargan Buttle in Mexborough and they married the following year, having two children: Noreen and John.
Buttle would work as a bus conductress during World War II and would later run a pub in Somercotes for sixteen years with her husband before they both retired. She lost her husband in 1981 and her daughter in 2002 to cancer.
Buttle celebrated her 100th, 101st and 102nd birthdays in 2013, 2014, and 2015 with the Salvation Army who she was credited as being a long time supporter and member of.
She died at the Troc Care Home in Newark, on the 3rd October 2017 aged 104 years.
References[]
- Musical surprise on Gladys's 102nd birthday Newark Advertiser
- GLADYS AMY BUTTLE, DOR: Q/4 2017 IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE - YEAR OF BIRTH: 1913 General Register Office Online Indexes