Obituaries of Notables in the Longevity Category

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 General Hospital in Abbotsford, British Columbia, a day after suffering a broken hip, according to a report in the Abbotsford Times newspaper. Her funeral was held Friday, the Ministry of Defense said....

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 and her online forum said. Olive Riley wrote 74 entries in her blogs, firstly http://www.allaboutolive.com.au and later http://worldsoldestblogger.blogspot.com. A friend introduced Riley to...

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.S. Naval District in Washington. His death comes days after the death of the last known surviving American female World War I veteran, Charlotte L. Winters, 109. The deaths leave three known...

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 person, he died at his home on the northern coast of Puerto Rico, his grandniece, Dolores Martinez told The Associated Press. He was 115. "He died like a little angel," Martinez said. Mercado...

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 the Gerontology Research Group at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was 112. Coles said the 5-foot-7, 140-pound Johnson lived almost exclusively off junk food like sausages and waffles. ...

Obituaries of Notable People in the Longevity Category

Gladys Powers, 109 (1899 - 2008)

Olive Riley (2008)

Lloyd Brown, 105 (1901 - 2007)

Emiliano Mercado Del Toro, 114 (1892 - 2007)

George Johnson, 112 (1894 - 2006)

Russell A. Buchanan (2006)