For his 110th birthday, Reverend Bill Morgan will have not one, but three parties this week to mark the occasion. First was a Sunday barbecue with his family, which made him happy.
The 103 years between Morgan and his great-grandson Flynn Sullivan, 7, disappeared as they shared a joke at Morgan’s aged care home in Melbourne’s south-east.
“You’re one of the best people in the world,” Flynn told his “great-buppa”.
“Well, you don’t know me, then,” shot back Morgan.
Great grand-daughter Arte Morgan-Marsh, 4, handed Morgan a hand-drawn birthday card, with a hug.
Morgan’s daughter, Lib Elliott, said he had “been a wonderful dad”.
Morgan, whose birthday is on Thursday, had “lived his life, he hasn’t just existed”, Elliott said.
At the age of 100, he went to the MCG to watch his beloved Wes