Between running musical programs in schools, singing at aged care facilities and organising the Bathurst Spring Spectacular Garden Festival for five years, Mrs Llewellyn well and truly earned the honour of being named one of Bathurst's Living Legends.

Her father was also a Living Legend, so it was an unexpected but sentimental honour for her.

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"I learned from the best! My father Dick Crossing was one of the original Living Legends for his community work," Mrs Llewellyn said.

"I enjoy being involved in a variety of community activities.

"I've been brought up with Dad always having something to do with the community, so I guess I just expected that I would follow that because I like doing it."

Mrs Llewellyn had been nominated as a Bathurst Living Legend previously by a friend, but was unsuccessful.

She was unaware that she had been nominated a second time until she received a letter in the mail - which she didn't read until more than two weeks after it was delivered.

"I never dreamed she [the friend] would do it again, so it came as a complete shock actually," Mrs Llewellyn said.

"I got a letter in the mail and funnily enough, because I get so little mail now, it had been sitting there for, I think, two-and-a-bit weeks and the snails had eaten through and I thought 'oh, what is this?'."

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One of Mrs Llewellyn's fondest memories is from a Living Legends event - not the one honouring her, however, but the bicentennial celebration six years ago.

"I trained and conducted the 200-voice choir down there ... that was wonderful because there were representatives, about 10 we asked for, from every school in Bathurst, from every denomination, primary and secondary, and to my knowledge that's the only time that's ever happened and it was really lovely ... it was a wonderful experience," she said.

Mrs Llewellyn has loved singing ever since she was taught as a student at Marsden School and has continued to perform in some way to this day.

She taught choir for 35 years in schools, was a member of the Allegri Singers for 25 years and sang at carols in the park each year and at Anzac Day for many years.

More recently, Mrs Llewellyn has performed at Macquarie Care and occasionally at Ilumba Nursing Home.

"I love singing at the nursing homes," she said.

"I sang at Ilumba last week and a lady came up to us after it and said 'I felt dreadful this morning, but you're so uplifting, you ladies, and it's made my day', and we used to get that a lot at Macquarie Care."

Mrs Llewellyn is also very fond of gardening and was the co-ordinator of the Bathurst Spring Spectacular for five years, which raised a total of nearly $100,000 for local charities.

In addition, she was the president of All Saints' College alumni for five years and is currently involved in building a museum in memory of the old school prior to its amalgamation.

Three generations of Mrs Llewellyn's family were educated at the same school.

"All Saints was very fond for me ... I think we had about 80 years of accumulative history with All Saints and Marsden," she said.

Not one to blow her own trumpet, Mrs Llewellyn was humbled to be nominated as a Bathurst Living Legend, but feels there are many others who deserve the same honour.

"I've got a lot of friends that do an awful lot in the community ... I suppose I was lucky that I had someone who nominated me," she said.

"I like to give back."