A woman in Newfoundland and Labrador is celebrating an incredible milestone today – Hersilia Moores is turning 109.

Harbour Main MHA Helen Conway-Ottenheimer rose in the House of Assembly to honour Moores, who she says is NL’s oldest person.

Conway-Ottenheimer says the woman was born the youngest of six children, and her father was a wireless operator for the Marconi Company.

She spent time working as a nurses’ aid at the St. Anthony Hospital, which is how she meet her husband, Murray Moores, an educator from Notre Dame Bay.

The couple, with their two kids, later moved to Brigus, where she lived for 50 years. She now resides in Clarke’s Beach.

Conway-Ottenheimer says Moores’ positive attitude and kindness have “held her in good stead all of her life.”

An example of that, says Conway-Ottenheimer, is her love of knitting. She says Moores has made thousands of finger puppets and donated them to the Janeway, with the woman joking that she has knitted so many that she has given herself tendonitis.