Her black curls are now snowy white, and while she has given up on her pastime of riding bicycles, her wit is still as sharp as when she was a school girl at the Dregerhafen Education Centre in Finschhafen.
Her older brother, former paramount chief and PNG’s first national newspaper journalist, the Late Muttu Gware, was peers with the late Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, while Abung Mactu joined them a year later at Dregerhafen, which is now known as the Dregerhafen Technical Secondary School.