{"id":53512,"date":"2014-02-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/53512\/celebrating-100-years-of-happy-birthdaysoranna-mouton-celebrates-her-100th-birthdayor-a-century-for-anna\/"},"modified":"2014-02-18T09:34:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T07:34:25","slug":"celebrating-100-years-of-happy-birthdaysoranna-mouton-celebrates-her-100th-birthdayor-a-century-for-anna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/02\/18\/celebrating-100-years-of-happy-birthdaysoranna-mouton-celebrates-her-100th-birthdayor-a-century-for-anna\/","title":{"rendered":"A century for Anna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Maria Mouton, who hails from Tedstoneville, celebrated her 100th birthday last Saturday, February 8.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53514\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53514\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2014\/02\/07GNCGENERAL100LH1_561091816.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53514\" alt=\"A beaming Anna Maria Mouton celebrated her 100th birthday on Saturday, February 8.\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2014\/02\/07GNCGENERAL100LH1_561091816-423x317.jpg\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2014\/02\/07GNCGENERAL100LH1_561091816-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2014\/02\/07GNCGENERAL100LH1_561091816-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2014\/02\/07GNCGENERAL100LH1_561091816.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A beaming Anna Maria Mouton celebrated her 100th birthday on Saturday, February 8.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She was born in 1914 in Johannesburg.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>It was love at first sight when Anna met her husband, Andries Mouton (who sadly died July 1962), at the local zoo.<\/p>\n<p>The couple was married in Jagersfontein, in 1931, and was blessed with four beautiful children.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Their three sons Koos, Piet and Andr\u00e9, and daughter, Judy, went on to give Anna 12 grandchildren to spoil.<\/p>\n<p>Her grandchildren, in turn, gave her 22 great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>And 2014 sees Anna expecting her second great-great-grandchild.<\/p>\n<p>Anna who has been a housewife for most of her life but did dabble in dressmaking for a short time.<\/p>\n<p>Friends describe her as a wonderful and loving woman, who is always full of jokes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anna never has a bad thing to say about anyone; she always has something nice to say, to brighten your situation and make you feel special,&#8221; said Audrey du Toit a friend of the Mouton family.<\/p>\n<p>Anna received a special treat for her birthday when Marie van Niekerk and Erna Kruger, hairstylists at Marie&#8217;s Hairdresser in Cruywagen Park, did her hair for her special day.<\/p>\n<p>Friends and family all agree they are thankful to have had Anna with them for this long and hope she will be around for years to come.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='a39256a0972490978df0b4d85c5736be'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating 100 years of happy birthdays. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":53513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Leigh Hodgson","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1924,8297,1012,1003,979,2870,2730],"class_list":["post-53512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-100-years","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-happy-birthday","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["100 years","community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","Happy birthday","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}