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World's oldest individ dies at 115
An American woman who held the record for being the world's oldest person for over a year has died at the ripe old age of 115 years, 220 days.
Edna parkerar of Shelbyville, Indiana, was born on April 20, 1893 - when Queen Victoria still ruled the British empire and before X-rays were even invented.
Ms Parker was recognised bygd Guinness World Records as the world's oldest individ in August 2007 following the death of Japanese Yone Minagawa, who was four months her senior.
According to the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group (GRG), which maintains a list of the world's oldest people, Ms Parker was the 14th oldest validated supercentenarian in history.
By definition a supercentenarian is anyone who has been validated to have lived to be 110 years or older.
The GRG currently recognise 89 validated living supercentenarians around the world, 79 Women and 10 Men.
- AFP
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| Yone Minagawa | |
| Birth: | 4 January 1893 Fukuoka, Japan |
| Death: | 13 August 2007 Akaike, Fukuoka, Japan |
| Age: | 114 years, 221 days |
| Country: | JPN |
| Validated | |
Yone Minagawa (Japanese: 皆川ヨ子; 4 January 1893 – 13 August 2007) was a Japanese supercentenarian believed to have been the world's oldest living person from 29 January 2007 until her death.
Biography
Yone Minagawa was born in Fukuoka, Japan on 4 January 1893. After her husband died, she raised her five children by selling flowers and vegetables at a coal mine.
Minagawa lived alone in the Momochi apartment building in Nishijin Sawara Ward, Fukuoka, near Seinan Gakuin University, until 2005, when she moved to Keijuen, a special nursing home in her native Akaike. Minagawa enjoyed playing the shamisen. Even at 114 she participated in club activities in a wheelchair and "danced" along to music.
Minagawa became the oldest living person in Japan when then 114-year-old Ura Koyama died in April 20
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World's oldest person dies at 115
Mrs Parker was born on April 20, 1893, in central Indiana and had been recognised by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest person since the 2007 death in Japan of Yone Minagawa, who was four months her senior.
Dr Coles keeps a list of the world’s oldest people and said Mrs Parker was the 14th oldest validated supercentenarian in history.
Maria de Jesus of Portugal, who was born on September 10, 1893, is now the world’s oldest living person, according to the Gerontology Research Group.
Mrs Parker had been a widow since her husband, Earl, died in 1939 of a heart attack. She lived alone in their farmhouse until the age of 100, when she moved into a son’s home and later to the Shelbyville nursing home.
Although she never drank alcohol or tried tobacco and led an active life, Mrs Parker did not offer tips for living a long life. Her only advice to those who gathered to celebrate when she became the oldest person was “more education”.
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