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Gertrude Baines (1894 - 2009)
By SOLVEJ SCHOU, Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES -- Gertrude Baines, who lived to be the world's oldest person on a steady diet of crispy bacon, fried chicken and ice cream, died Friday at a nursing home. She was 115. Baines, who remarked last year that she enjoyed life so much she wouldn't mind living another 100 years, died in her sleep, said Emma Camanag, administrator at Western...
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Harry Patch, 111 (1898 - 2009)
By ROBERT BARR - Associated Press Writer LONDON Harry Patch, Britain's last survivor of the trenches of World War I, was a reluctant soldier who became a powerful eyewitness to the horror of war, and a symbol of a lost generation. Patch, who died Saturday at 111, was wounded in 1917 in the Battle of Passchendaele, which he remembered as "mud, mud and more mud mixed together with...
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Henry Allingham, 113 (1896 - 2009)
By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press Writer LONDON - The world's oldest man, 113-year-old World War I veteran Henry Allingham, died Saturday after spending his final years reminding Britain about the 9 million soldiers killed during the conflict. He went to war as a teenager, helped keep flimsy aircraft flying, survived his wounds and came home from World War I to a long - very long - and...
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Waldo McBurney, 106 (1902 - 2009)
QUINTER, Kan. - Waldo McBurney, who was named America's oldest worker and gained fame in his later years as a competitive runner and beekeeper, died Wednesday. He was 106. McBurney, whose life spanned an age of horse-drawn buggies to computers, died at the Gove County Medical Center in his hometown, according to the Schmitt Funeral Home in Quinter. In 2006, he was named America's...
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Tomoji Tanabe, 113 (1895 - 2009)
TOKYO -- Tomoji Tanabe, the world's oldest man, has died in his sleep at his home in southern Japan, a city official said. He was 113. "He died peacefully. His family members were with him," said Junko Nakao, a city official in Miyakonojo on Japan's southern island of Kyushu. Tanabe died Friday of heart failure, she said. Tanabe, who was born Sept. 18, 1895, had eight children--five sons...
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Sgt. Maj Manuel Curry, 84 (1925 - 2009)
NEW ORLEANS - Sgt. Maj. Manuel Curry, who was on city of New Orleans police force for more than six decades and was believed to be the longest serving full-time law enforcement officer in the...
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John "Jack" Ross, 110 (1899 - 2009)
SYDNEY -- John "Jack" Ross, Australia's oldest man and the last remaining Australian to serve in World War I, died Wednesday, Veterans' Affairs Minister Alan Griffin said. He was 110. Ross died...
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Martha Mason (1938 - 2009)
RALEIGH, N.C. - A woman who spent 61 years in an iron lung yet graduated from college and wrote a book about her life has died at her North Carolina home. A close friend said Tuesday that...
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Rev. Theodore Heck, 108 (1901 - 2009)
ST. MEINRAD, Ind. - The Rev. Theodore Heck, a southern Indiana priest believed to be the world's oldest Benedictine monk, has died. He was 108. The St. Meinrad Archabbey said Heck died...
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Herbert Hamrol (1903 - 2009)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Herbert Hamrol, who survived the Great Earthquake of 1906 and recalled for later generations how his mother carried him to safety that day, has died. He was 106. Hamrol, one of...
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Beatrice Farve, 113 (1895 - 2009)
BRUNSWICK, Ga. - Beatrice Farve, considered by Guinness World Records to be the second-oldest person in the world, died Monday. She was 113. Farve died in her sleep at the Brunswick home she'd...
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George Francis, 112 (1896 - 2008)
By JASON DEAREN, Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO – George Francis, the nation's oldest man, who lived through both world wars, man's first walk on the moon and the election of the first...
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Edna Parker, 115 (1893 - 2008)
Edna Parker, who became the world's oldest person more than a year ago, has died at age 115. UCLA gerontologist Dr. Stephen Coles said Parker's great-nephew notified him that Parker died...
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Gladys Powers, 109 (1899 - 2008)
LONDON - Gladys Powers, believed to be the last surviving female veteran of World War I, has died in Canada, Britain's Ministry of Defense said Friday. She was 109. Powers died Aug. 15 at MSA...
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Olive Riley (2008)
SYDNEY, Australia -- A 108-year-old Australian woman who was promoted as the world's oldest blogger has died two weeks after making her last post about "singing a happy song," her great-grand son...
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Lloyd Brown, 105 (1901 - 2007)
Lloyd Brown, the last known surviving World War I Navy veteran, has died. He was 105. Brown died Thursday at the Charlotte Hall Veterans Home in St. Mary's County, according to family and the U...
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Emiliano Mercado Del Toro, 114 (1892 - 2007)
Emiliano Mercado del Toro was born when Puerto Rico was still a Spanish colony and trained as a soldier the year World War I ended. On Wednesday, having spent just a month as the world's oldest...
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Russell A. Buchanan (2006)
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) -- Russell A. Buchanan, one of the United States' last surviving World War I veterans, has died. He was 106. Buchanan suffered a stroke the day before Thanksgiving...
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George Johnson, 112 (1894 - 2006)
LOS ANGELES - George Johnson, considered California's oldest living person and the state's last surviving World War I veteran, died Wednesday of pneumonia, said Dr. L. Stephen Coles, founder of...
