The Estia Health Albury resident was born on March 31, 1918, prior to the end of World War One and the Spanish Flu pandemic.

Mrs Butt also lived through the great depression, World War Two and now, the COVID-19 pandemic.

The talkative 103-year-old celebrated her momentous birthday by visiting Beechworth with her beloved grandson Anthony on Wednesday.

On Thursday Mrs Butt was the centre of attention at an Estia Health celebration, featuring her requested KFC, non-alcoholic champagne and cake.

The lifelong Albury resident lived in her home near monument hill for more than 70 years, only moving into a nursing home at age 101.

"It was just a miner's cottage when we bought it, we had to put two floors in before we could move into it," she said.

"No kitchen, they were making it but it wasn't done, so we had put bricks in and use the fireplace as a stove."

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Mrs Butt worked in the woollen mills after leaving school and married her husband Tom Butt when she was 21 and he was 25.

"We'd been going together for four years, I think that was long enough," she said.

"We had no cars, so I had to ride on the bar of his bike.

"It was fun just the same... we'd go to Noreuil [Park] and take dinner down have meals down there."

The couple had four children together, three sons and a daughter, and Mrs Butt has many grandchildren.

Mrs Butt said although life had its challenges, her son Richard was born with disabilities and her two sisters died young, meeting and talking with people was a joy.

"Make the best you can out of it, I enjoyed meeting people, talking to them," she said.

She said even decades later sometimes when she was shopping people who knew her as children recognised her and said hello.

"There's so many different people," she said.

"I love meeting people."

Mrs Butt said talking to people was also a good way to deal with conflicts rather than getting mad.

"That's my way of doing things, I never hit anybody or never swore at them, I just talked to them," she said.

Asked if she had any advice for young people, the centenarian recommended couples get married before having children or going to bed together.

She said it was important people people stay faithful and don't try to steal others' partners.

"You're suppose to take them for good will," she said.

"I like to see people walking along holding each others hands. My son said to me once, he said 'I love seeing you and dad coming up from the gate holding hands'."

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