SPCA Selangor founder celebrates 100th birthday, says secret to long life is eating well
Mea Wheatley was chairman of SPCA Selangor for over 40 years. — Pix by Firdaus Latif
Wheatley, a Dutch national born in Indonesia in 1919, came to Malaysia in her 30s where she met her husband and remained here ever since. “Back then SPCA was just a shed outside. We were really poor, we had two construction cabins and a few sheds just sitting outside. We never had the money to develop this part of SPCA.
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