ONE of the UK’s oldest residents has died in Kingsteignton at the magnificent age of 109.

Selina Burridge, who was born in Derby just six years after the death of Queen Victoria, spent the last 12 years of her life at the Greenhills Residential Home.

She died there peacefully on Friday.

It’s believed she may have been the oldest person in the South West at the time of her death.

She was known to family and friends as Lena – and she was one of ten children.

Her husband Frank, known as Jim, died in 1999.

The couple married in 1929 and retired to Kingsteignton in 1970.

Her brief schooldays lasted till she was 14 when she went to work in a mill, a job she held until going into service as a nursemaid.

Her maiden name was Adams.

During and after the Second World War she worked in a drapery shop as an assistant.

It’s thought Lena would have been one of the 20 oldest people in the UK at the time of her death, according to the oldestinbritain website.

A funeral service will be held at St Michael’s Church in Kingsteignton on March 1 at 2pm.