Nursing home Danica Vogrinec: Resident Jožica Ošlak celebrates 100th birthday during a lockdown

English

Sympathetic, vital, and positive are the words I would use to describe Jožica Ošlak, who recently celebrated her 100th birthday. She has been living in the Danica Vogrinec Home in Maribor for thirteen years, where a pleasant surprise was prepared for her birthday. She loves dancing and that what she did on her 100th birthday.

She and her husband loved to dance, preferably foxtrot, she said when describing glimpses from life. »I had a nice life and a good husband,«  she described. She was a dressmaker and her husband an accountant. They met on Maribor Island, a popular swimming pool and it was love at first sight. Great Love, she said and remarked, that he never drank or smoked.

In the old part of the city center, she had a sewing salon. And expressed great respect for the superior who taught her this work. »Those hands taught me,« she said as she described how the funeral of her superior remained in her memory.

At the Danica Vogrinec Home, they say Jožica is always elegantly dressed, she even went to the harvest in shirt blouses and always comes to the home dining room in shoes with heels. Thirteen years ago, she came to the Home immobile due to an injury, she got well soon and today she spreads her goodwill and joy with dancing and singing.

Slovenian

Simpatična, vitalna in pozitivno naravnana so besede, s katerimi bi opisala Jožico Ošlak, ki je pred kratkim praznovala 100 rojstni dan. Trinajst let živi v Domu Danice Vogrinec v Mariboru, kjer so ji ob tej izjemni svečanosti pripravili prijetno presenečenje. Ob praznovanju pa je tudi zaplesala.

Z možem sta zelo rada plesala, najraje fokstrot, je dejala, ko je opisovala utrinke iz življenja. »Imela sem lepo življenje in dobrega moža,« so besede, s katerimi je opisala svojo pot. Bila je šivilja, mož pa računovodja. Spoznala sta se na Mariborskem otoku in bila je ljubezen na prvi pogled. Velika ljubezen. Pri tem pa je poudarila, da mož nikoli ni pil, ne kadil.

Imela je šiviljski salon v Jurčičevi ulici. In pri tem izrazila veliko spoštovanje do nadrejene, ki jo je naučila tega dela. »Te roke so mene učile,« je dejala, ko je opisovala, kako ji je v spominu ostal pogreb nadrejene.

V Domu Danice Vogrinec pravijo, da je ga. Jožica vedno elegantno oblečena, še na trgatev je hodila v srajčnih bluzicah in na obroke v domsko jedilnico vedno pride v čevljih s petko. Pred trinajstimi leti je v Dom prišla nepokretna zaradi poškodbe, nato se je pozdravila in danes razveseljuje s svojo dobro voljo in veseljem do plesa in petja.