A GREAT-great-great-grandmother, who was the eldest member of one of the only families in the world with six generations alive at the same time, has died at the age of 104.

Hilda Hanson was born and raised in West Bowling, and most recently lived at Springfield Care Home in Halifax Road, Buttershaw, where she had lived since 2011.

She hit the headlines in the Telegraph & Argus in January 2017, when we revealed her family was thought to be the only one in the UK, and one of a few worldwide, to have six generations all alive at the same time, following the birth of her great-great-great-grandson, Finlay Mellor.

The story also made the news nationally, with a number of national papers picking up the T&A story.

It wasn’t the first time Hilda had appeared in the paper, featuring in 2014 when she celebrated her 100th birthday.

The eldest of six children, Hilda worked in the Bradford mills from the age of 14, before later becoming an auxiliary on the children’s ward at St Luke’s Hospital.

She had a lifelong love for working and spending time with children at the hospital.

Hilda moved into Springfield Care Home with her husband Albert in May 2011, who died eight weeks later, and lived with Alzheimer’s disease towards the end of her life.

Susan Godward, Hilda’s granddaughter, paid tribute to her “Gran”, who “loved life and was stubborn until the end”.

She said: “My Gran was very sociable, she loved life, and loved dancing and going out to the club and getting dressed up.

“She loved her shoes, especially her high heels, and having a good party, she was always a smiley person.

“We were all with her at the end and even then she was stubborn, my dad and I were holding her hands and he said, ‘Can you feel that?’, and she was squeezing our hands.

“Her mother lived to 101, and my dad said all the women in the family live to a good age, it must be in our genes.

“Round the home she was always helping herself to sweets and chocolate, she always had a sweet tooth, and loved a glass of Guiness when she was younger.

“She saw a lot, she lived through two World Wars and saw a lot of change, and we will all miss her dearly.”

Hilda’s funeral will take place on Wednesday, August 1, at 1.20pm at Scholemoor Cemetery.