100-Year-Old Twin Sisters Celebrate Their 100th Birthday

By Shefali Shrivastava on November 28, 2016 at 5:28 PM

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These twins have proven to be quite the sister act after celebrating their 100^th birthday. Meet Irene Crump and Phyllis Jones- The twins were born 25 minutes apart on November 20th, 1916 and went to the same school, had the same first jobs, and now even live together in Stourbridge, Worcestershire!

The twins – who aren’t identical but look remarkably similar – attended the same school and shared their first job at Steatite Porcelain Products before Irene married farmer Samuel Crump. The duo put their milestone birthday down to ‘hard work and good food’ and celebrated in style with 48 friends and a traditional Sunday roast.
Irene, the younger of the two, said: “We often celebrate our special birthdays together, and we had a lovely day. “We celebrated our 90th together, and last year we celebrated our 99th birthday too.“Hard work and good food is our secret, that’s all I can put it down to.” The twins have each other’s first name for their middle name and say they have always been close.
The duo celebrated their remarkable 100th birthday with a Sunday roast and 48 friends and family members. The sisters didn’t ask for gifts on their birthday, instead, they requested donations for the air ambulance. “We haven’t got all the money in yet but we think we’ve done pretty well, it’s a cause close to our heart,” Irene said.
The pair can’t remember how much they weighed when they were born, but Irene – or Auntie Rene as she’s affectionately known – says she’s always been ‘plump’. The twins had an elder sister, Dorothy, who died in 2006 aged 92. Dorothy was also a twin, but her sibling passed away during childbirth. Both Irene and Phyllis married: Irene’s husband Samuel died in 1999 and lived well into his 90s, and Phyllis’ husband, Ray Jones, died aged 91 in 2006.
Although Irene never had any children, Phyllis’ only son, Carl Jones, helps care for them both, especially now Phyllis has vascular dementia. The pair are thought to be one of just six sets of ‘centenarian’ twins in the UK and go out for lunch most Fridays at the Lenchford Inn, where they celebrated their birthday.