Bermuda’s most senior citizen has moved on: A’Lona Lambert-Simons, of Somerset, has died at the age of 105.

Her birth predated the First World War and the launch of the Titanic, in an age when there was no state of Arizona and aircraft were still in their infancy.

Hamilton’s signature Anglican Cathedral had yet to be consecrated, while the island had only recently acquired street lighting — and its roughly 20,000 residents were getting around by horse, boat, bicycle or on foot.

Indeed, the family of Mrs Lambert-Simons credited her notorious longevity — and that of her siblings, some of whom also broke the 100-mark — to the active lives of Bermudians in her day.

She became Bermuda’s oldest person, and her birthday in January was occasion for a congratulatory card from the Queen, as well as flowers from Michael Dunkley and a serenade at the Matilda Smith Williams seniors’ home.

Famed in her day for her bountiful garden and baking skills, Mrs Lambert-Simons, who hailed from the neighbourhood of Scaur, was the widow of mason and cricketer Ralph Elliott Simons, who died in 1977. She also taught for a few years at the Southampton Glebe School, now Dalton E Tucker Primary School.