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One of the oldest people in Scotland has died.

Paisley woman Jean Martin, known as Jeanie to family and friends, was 106.

In October last year she celebrated the latest of her many milestone birthdays with a party at Paisley’s Kyle Court Care Home.

To her delight, her great grandsons Joe, six, and four-year-old Innes took their classmates from Bushes Primary along to serenade her on her special day.

Jeanie was left overwhelmed at their rendition of Scottish folk song, Bonnie Wee Jeannie McColl.

She was also treated to a performance from the Scotia Ceilidh Band.

Paying tribute, granddaughter Joanna Jagger said: “Gran was an incredible lady, she was one of a kind.

“She lived through so much change and embraced everything life threw at her with enthusiasm and a great sense of humour.

“She loved life and she loved her family.

“Nothing phased her and she taught us to be fearless, have ambition and let nothing hold us back.

“She was generous, quick witted, and sometimes sharp tongued!

“I had the privilege of being with her when she passed away and I know she was happy and at

peace.

“She was our matriarch and our rock and we’ll never stop loving and missing her.”

Jeanie was born Jean Ramsay on October 18, 1913 in Shettleston and she was the youngest of eight children.

She lived in Glasgow with her parents, Archie Ramsay and Maggie Beaton, four brothers and three sisters.

In 1935, at the age of 22 she was working at Kidmar Hosiery in Bridgeton — and it was around this time she met Paisley man Joseph Martin after a chance meeting in Woolworths in Argyle Street.

Jeanie was shopping for Christmas presents when she dropped them on the shop floor.

Joseph, who was an engineer at the Singer sewing machine factory in Clydebank, picked them up and offered to carry them to the tram.

He then jumped on the tram and sat beside her, seeing her home and asking her out on a date.

The pair married at Paisley Parish Church on September 18, 1936 and went on to have two children Bert, who died in 2006, and Margaret, 79.

She also had two grandchildren, Jean and Joanna and four great-grandchildren – Morgana, Tabitha, Joe and Ines.

Jeanie and Joseph lived their lives in Paisley, with Jeanie working as the forewoman in the dyeworks on Abercorn Street, where she was known for her fierce

whistle.

Jeanie and Joseph remained happily married until Joseph’s death in 1984.

At he time of Jeanie’s 106 birthday, Joanna said: “She puts her longevity down to not smoking or drinking and having lots of fun.

“Her main vice is her sweet tooth.”

Jeanie’s funeral will take place on Friday, February 21, at 11.30am, at Woodside Crematorium, Paisley.