In her 97th year, Mrs Helen Sandow could be forgiven for not believing what she was reading in an email sent “out of the blue”.
It said she was to receive the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to the community and she had to ask a family member to ensure it wasn’t a scam.
“When I first saw it I felt quite funny...it was the shock I think! Then I had a few tears of cour...