A Scottish woman who lived through two world wars and the 1918 flu pandemic has received her first dose of coronavirus vaccine on her 108th birthday.
Marion Dawson, who was born in 1913 and is believed to be the third oldest person in Scotland, received her vaccine at a church in Houston, Renfrewshire, on Tuesday, according to a news release from local health trust NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
“I’m glad it’s passed. I never felt a thing,” Dawson said after receiving the vaccine, according to the release.
Rev. Gary Noonan, minister for Houston and Killellan Kirk church, called Dawson a “local treasure.”
“Mrs. Dawson is a local treasure in Houston, having lived through two world wars and until the lockdown she never missed a week at church. It’s fitting she can get her vaccine in the Kirk, a place she loves,” Noonan said.
