IT WAS a case of very happy families when great great-grandma May Willett met up with the newest addition to her brood.
Little Lola-Grace Fildes was just six weeks old when she came face to face with 98-year-old Mrs Willett at The Bungalow care home in Farnworth.
And for the first time five generations of women from the same family were in the room together, delighting matriarch, former mill worker Mrs Willett.
“It made her day. She absolutely loved it,” said Lola-Grace’s mum and Mrs Willett’s great granddaughter, Kirsty Smerecky.
“It felt a bit surreal really, knowing that there are almost 100 years in between them.
“Lola will grow up in a completely different world to her.”
At the meeting Mrs Willett, a widowed mum-of-three and Lola-Grace, who lives in Horwich with her mum, a 26-year-old student nurse and dad, Michael Fildes, were joined by other generations of the family.
They included Mrs Willett’s daughter, Joan Bellow, a 73-year-old mum-of-seven from Great Lever and Miss Smerecky’s mother, 50-year-old Eileen Smerecky, from The Haulgh, who has three children.
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