TRIBUTES have been paid to a "beloved" great-grandmother who died aged 101.
Doris Mrozinska was born in Nottingham in 1913 and spent her early years living in a caravan in Radcliffe-on-Trent.
She lived in and around Nottingham all her life and during the Second World War she worked as a fitter's mate at Tollerton airfield, keeping planes in order.
Mrs Mrozinska also held a number of other jobs including one at cigarette firm John Player's, working on the machines, as well as the Bird's Nest restaurant, in Mansfield Road, Nottingham, and at the Radio Rentals shop in Sherwood.
She also wrote to the Bygones supplement of the Post in 2006 with her memories of working as a pump attendant at the T. Forbes garage on Castle Boulevard (pictured), a position she held for 28 years.
She wrote: "You will see I am filling up a motorbike with petrol. It was very cheap in those days. I used to check the tyres and oil level and water and clean the windscreen, and they gave me sixpence."
Mrs Mrozinska added that she had to go to London on a week's course to learn how to be a petrol pump attendant and still had the certificate.
She lived with her husband Marion in Bulwell but he died around 30 years ago.
Her last address was the Yolanta House Care Home, in Sherwood Rise, and she celebrated her 100th birthday last March surrounded by her daughter, three grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Granddaughter Andrea Chadwick, of Edwinstowe, said: "Grandma often enjoyed a cool refreshing lager with family and her friends at Top House in Bulwell, the Catholic Club and Polish Club on Sherwood rise but her latest hangout was the manor in Sherwood.
"Her life stories were enjoyed by all that knew her."
Miss Chadwick said that one thing Mrs Mrozinska was known for was winning several Easter bonnet competitions.
Her secret? "Adding bits to the same hat year after year."
Mrs Mrozinska's funeral will take place at Wilford Hill Cemetery on Monday, October 20, at 2pm.