A KEEN member of Selby Golf Club has celebrated her 90th birthday by collecting donations for one of her favourite causes.
Bess Maude, of Fir Tree Lane, Thorpe Willoughby, raised £300 for Selby War Memorial Hospital by telling friends she would prefer donations instead of presents to celebrate her big day.
She gathered the cash at three birthday parties - one at her church, one at the golf club and the third at home with close friends.
Mrs Maude said: "I have been involved with the Friends of Selby War Memorial Hospital for about ten years. My husband spent some time there before his death in 1976.
"The money will pay for half a bed so will be put to good use. I didn't really want presents at my age." Mrs Maude is originally from Shropshire, but she moved to Yorkshire during her teens. She also spent a number of years living in California during the 1950s.
She took up golf when she married her husband because "he was a keen golfer and I did not want to die of boredom".
She still plays regularly and has a handicap of 40, although at one time it was 21.
Updated: 12:24 Tuesday, June 17, 2003
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