A grandmother once determined to become a nun – welcomed her 100th great-grandchild

Gran, 99, who almost became a nun, welcomes her 100th great-grandchild.

Marguerite Koller, from Pennsylvania in the United States, celebrates the arrival of baby Koller – named after her great-grandmother.

 

The milestone comes just two months before the 99-year-old reaches another – her 100th birthday.

Incredibly, Marguerite was on the verge of becoming a nun – but chose to marry her husband William instead, in 1942.

Speaking to NBC 10 Philadelphia, she said, “I just think how lucky I am”.

Koller, now a widow living in Bluebell near Philadelphia, is a mother of 11 and grandmother of 56, though she herself was an only child.

In 2015, Marguerite told the news: “I thought I wanted 12, but after I started getting them, I wasn’t sure I wanted that many”.

She applied for the convent as a junior in high school, but William “talked her down.”

Christine Balster, mother of baby Koller and granddaughter of Marguerite, said she and her husband named their child Koller William.

The Koller in honor of her great-grandmother and William in memory of her husband.

Last month, Britain’s biggest family – the Radfords – welcomed a new addition to their generation.

Chloe Radford, 26, introduced and showed a baby girl to the fans viral on social media, with mother and her grandmother, Sue, celebrating the birth of the newest and cutest member of the huge Radford family.