• Recent Obituaries - Longevity



  • Gertrude Baines (1894 - 2009)

    Gertrude  Baines

    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)

    Harry  Patch

    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)

    Henry  Allingham

    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)

    Waldo  McBurney

    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)

    Tomoji   Tanabe

    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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