Ms Hacker was one of a group of Nursery World readers who responded to alonely woman's plea posted in the magazine in 1935. It led to themforming life-long friendships through a private correspondence'magazine' made up of round-robin letters, with Ms Hacker writing underthe pseudonym 'Elektra'. The club lasted for 55 years, brought to an endonly by the ill health of its contributors.
But Rose Hacker, a married mother of two boys, continued to write andwas thought to be the world's oldest newspaper columnist when she diedafter a short illness earlier this month. It was only at the age of 100that she became a journalist for London's Camden New Journal. Beforethat she had been a fashion designer, politician and marriage guidancecounsellor.
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