LAKEVILLE — Lakeville’s own Queen Elizabeth, Elizabeth Bryant, wore a crown of her own on Friday, Aug. 12 to celebrate her 100th birthday.

She was honored on her centennial birthday with a gathering at the Lakeville Senior Center, where she was presented with the Boston Post Cane. The cane is awarded to the town’s oldest resident. 

“This is so great, so surprising,’’ she said at the ceremony, which featured town officials and her friends from the senior center.

The crown served as a formality, her friend Donna Thompson said. “She was already the queen,’’ she said.

Bryant received the cane from Brian Reynolds, president of the Lakeville Historical Society and chair of the Lakeville Historical Commission, and Joan Gladu Morton, vice president of the Lakeville Historical Commission and a member of the Lakeville Historical Society.

The cane was established by the now defunct Boston Post newspaper in 1909 and is presented by town officials to the community’s oldest resident. 

The honors didn’t stop there. She also was presented with a proclamation at the select board meeting Aug. 15 designating the day as Elizabeth Bryant Day.

That way, select board member Evagelia Fabian said, “everyone in town will know you’re the queen.’’

Bryant credits her long life with doing “being good, being bad, a little of everything.’’

And she joked that the crown may affect her travel plans. “I’m going to London to be the queen,’’ she quipped.