Edith Rose, who marked her 102nd birthday on Dec. 30, came down to work a shift on the Cranbrook Health Care Auxiliary Information Desk at the East Kootenay Regional Hospital on Monday, Jan. 8.
Rose grew up on a farm near Sovereign, Saskatchewan. She graduated with a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Saskatchewan in the 1940s, and became Canada’s first female cereal chemist.
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