World's Oldest Person Dies
Just how old does one have to be to hold the title as the world's oldest person?
Edna Parker, formerly named the world's oldest person over a year ago, died at age 115. UCLA gerontologist Dr. Stephen Coles currently maintains an active list of the world's oldest people and was notified that Parker died Wednesday at a nursing home in Shelbyville, Indiana. She was 115 years, 220 days old. Coles then confirmed that Parker was the 14th oldest validated supercentenarian in history. However, with her death, Maria de Jesus of Portugal, born Sept. 10, 1893, is now the world's oldest living person, according to the Gerontology Research Group.
Parker was born April 20, 1893, & had been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person since the death of Japan-native Yone Minagawa, who was four months older, in 2007. Parker was widowed when her husband, Earl Parker, died in 1939 of a heart attack, lived alone in their farmhouse until age 100, moved into a son's home, and then resided in a Shelbyville nursing home.
She never drank alcohol, never tried tobacco, and led an active life. The only advice that she openly gave others concerning the possibility of a longer life was "more education." Parker outlived her two sons, Clifford and Earl Jr. She had five grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and 13 great-great-grandchildren. One of her grandsons, Don Parker, 60, said his grandmother had a small frame and a mild temperament. She walked a lot and kept busy even after moving into the nursing home, he said. "She kept active," he said Thursday. "We used to go up there, and she would be pushing other patients in their wheelchairs."
So, even with improved physiological understandings and the resulting advances, it cannot hurt to take such stories into consideration. Even with the available physiological help, it would prove a reliable basis for one's life to live healthy and remain active.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081128/ap_on_re_us/obit_oldest_person
Edna Parker, formerly named the world's oldest person over a year ago, died at age 115. UCLA gerontologist Dr. Stephen Coles currently maintains an active list of the world's oldest people and was notified that Parker died Wednesday at a nursing home in Shelbyville, Indiana. She was 115 years, 220 days old. Coles then confirmed that Parker was the 14th oldest validated supercentenarian in history. However, with her death, Maria de Jesus of Portugal, born Sept. 10, 1893, is now the world's oldest living person, according to the Gerontology Research Group.
Parker was born April 20, 1893, & had been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person since the death of Japan-native Yone Minagawa, who was four months older, in 2007. Parker was widowed when her husband, Earl Parker, died in 1939 of a heart attack, lived alone in their farmhouse until age 100, moved into a son's home, and then resided in a Shelbyville nursing home.
She never drank alcohol, never tried tobacco, and led an active life. The only advice that she openly gave others concerning the possibility of a longer life was "more education." Parker outlived her two sons, Clifford and Earl Jr. She had five grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and 13 great-great-grandchildren. One of her grandsons, Don Parker, 60, said his grandmother had a small frame and a mild temperament. She walked a lot and kept busy even after moving into the nursing home, he said. "She kept active," he said Thursday. "We used to go up there, and she would be pushing other patients in their wheelchairs."
So, even with improved physiological understandings and the resulting advances, it cannot hurt to take such stories into consideration. Even with the available physiological help, it would prove a reliable basis for one's life to live healthy and remain active.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081128/ap_on_re_us/obit_oldest_person
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