Marjorie Burton

Marjorie Edna Burton (née Eyres; 23 August 1909 - 12 November 2018) was a British centenarian who was the oldest living woman in Scotland at the time of her death. She had been the oldest living woman in Scotland since the death of Flora Smith on 3 August 2018.

Biography
Marjorie Burton was born in Wiltshire on 23 August 1909 to Lionel Archibald Eyres and Edna Kate Reakes. She married William Burton in late 1932. They had one son together; David.

Following the death of her son and husband, she moved to Aberchirder, where she lived by herself for a few years. Around 2010, her sister also moved to Aberchirder. The two lived together for some time, before Burton decided to find a place of her own.

On her 106th birthday, Burton claimed that the secret to a long life was to drink "gallons of lemonade."

Burton continued to live on her own until October 2018, when - at age 109 - she moved to Durnhythe Care Home in Banff.

Burton died of pneumonia on 12 November 2018. At the time of her death, she was the second-oldest living person in Scotland behind Alf Smith. Her successor as Scotland's oldest woman was 109-year-old Annie Lean.