Mrs Peucker's mother Alma Cooper was born on January 1, 1900.

At that time, the Lowestoft mansion sat at the top of Horsham's Firebrace Street, a fountain stood at the centre of Wilson Street, draught horses drew plows through farmers' fields and Horsham police wore white helmets.

Mrs Peucker said her mother was born at her parents' home in Lah, now owned by the Drage family. "She was a jolly good mother," she said. "We never forgot her birthday."

"We lived at Minyip, and we would see truckloads of bricks taken to Warracknabeal to build the town hall. I was only a kid then. Mum was on the school committee at Minyip State School.

"My Dad Christopher (a labourer originally from Switzerland) died of cancer in 1956. So I had to see to mum that she was looked after because I was the only one of my siblings not married.

"I worked to help her keep the home fire burning - I did part-time cleaning work at Warracknabeal Hospital and business people's homes."

Mrs Peucker is the sole surviving member of Mrs Cooper's four children. Her siblings Christopher, Stanley, Unice. Her husband Eric died in 2012.

Mrs Cooper, who died in 1975, shares her birthday with Hamilton Lamb, a Dadswells Bridge-born upper house MP for the Wimmera who died in a Japanese Prisoner of War camp in Thailand in World War Two.

In a quirky twist, Mrs Peucker resides at Sunnyside Lutheran Retirement Village, where another millennium baby works.

Brenton Hallam, who was born on January 1, 2000, is a carer at the Horsham organisation.

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