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Meet Gertrude Weaver and MISAO OKAWA ; World Most Oldest Person by Nobody: 10:14pm On Apr 21, 2015 |
Just days after becoming the world’s oldest documented person, 116-year- old Gertrude Weaver died on Monday in Arkansas. Weaver became the oldest person in the world after the death of a 117- year-old Japanese woman last week, according to records kept by the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group. Weaver was born in 1898. The Williams Funeral Home confirmed Weaver died just after 10am on Monday at the Silver Oaks Health and Rehabilitation Centre in Camden, about 100 miles south-west of Little Rock. The mayor of Camden, Marie Trisollini, chatted with Weaver last week when the supercentenarian’s roommate celebrated her 100th birthday. “She was a really sweet lady. She was relatively perky and coherent when I talked with her before the party,” Trisollini said. “When you asked for advice on how to live a long life she would say: ‘Use a lot of skin moisturiser, treat everyone nice, love your neighbour and eat your own cooking. Don’t eat at fast food places.’” The Research Group was able to verify Weaver’s age using census records and a marriage certificate from 1915 that listed her age as 17. Other records pointed to a possible April birthday, but since those could not be confirmed, the group used the day Weaver had always celebrated her birthday: 4 July. Trisollini said the nursing home and several members of the community had been making plans for Weaver’s 117th birthday party. Weaver, who was born in south-west Arkansas to sharecropper parents, told nursing home staff last week that she wanted to invite President Barack Obama because she had voted for him twice.
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Re: Meet Gertrude Weaver and MISAO OKAWA ; World Most Oldest Person by Nobody: 10:21pm On Apr 21, 2015 |
Name: MISAO OKAWA Country of residence: Japan Birthday: March 5, 1898 The oldest person in the world hails from Japan, noted for its abundance of people who live beyond 100. And Misao Okawa is the oldest Japanese person ever. (At 122, Jeanne Calment of France, who died in 1997, was by far the oldest person to have ever lived, at least among those with verified credentials.) Okawa, who lives in an old people's community in Osaka, was born when Queen Victoria was still on the throne and the Spanish-American War was raging. She has been a widow for 84 years, her husband having died in 1931. Her secrets to longevity? Good genes, regular sleep, exercise — she was doing leg squats at 102 — and some sushi. "Eat and sleep and you will live a long time," she told Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper. "Mrs Okawa eats three large meals a day and makes sure that she sleeps eight hours a night," Tomohito Okada, the director of the Kurenai Retirement Home, where she has lived for the last 18 years, told the Telegraph. "She insists that her favorite meal is sushi, particularly mackerel on vinegar-steamed rice, and she has it at least once every month." Okawa was married in 1919 and had three children, two of whom are still living and are in their 90s. She also has four grandchildren and six great- grandchildren.
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Re: Meet Gertrude Weaver and MISAO OKAWA ; World Most Oldest Person by jamex93(m): 10:24pm On Apr 21, 2015 |
him no too old na |
Re: Meet Gertrude Weaver and MISAO OKAWA ; World Most Oldest Person by Nobody: 10:25pm On Apr 21, 2015 |
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Re: Meet Gertrude Weaver and MISAO OKAWA ; World Most Oldest Person by Nobody: 10:26pm On Apr 21, 2015 |
WOW |
Re: Meet Gertrude Weaver and MISAO OKAWA ; World Most Oldest Person by Nobody: 10:57pm On Apr 21, 2015 |
Wow!! this is amazing only I pray God grant my enemy to live twice that age |
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