Posted on 11/27/2008 12:25:05 PM PST by Deo volente
SHELBYVILLE, Ind. - Edna Parker, who once taught in a two-room schoolhouse and 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 passed away Wednesday at a nursing home in Shelbyville. She was 115 years, 220 days old, said Robert Young, a senior consultant for gerontology for Guinness World Records.
Parker was born April 20, 1893 in central Indiana's Morgan County and had been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person since the Aug. 14, 2007, death in Japan of Yone Minagawa, who was four months her senior.
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You mean Sen. Robert KKK Byrd (RAT-VW) isn’t the world’s oldest person?
Prayers for Edna and family. The 100 plus crowd are amazing folks. My own great grandmother lived 101 years.
The world is left without the world’s oldest person!
She was born well before the airplane was invented in 1903
Strom moves up to number 2.
Strom Thurmond is still alive???
Oh, crap. Now what do we do?
LOL. How will we know the difference? Except I think he was in his 80s when he fathered a child.
Methuselah. 969 years.
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1178133
A little video from her 115th Birthday party last April:
No, he just looks and talks like it.
What was the cause of death?
“What was the cause of death?”
They’ll probably attribute it to second-hand smoke.
This nursing home was where Sandy Allen, the world’s tallest woman, died a while back.
Parachute didn't open, and she was too creaky to pull the reserve.
In this case, it's fair to just say the cause of death was being 115 years old.
(Not meaning to make fun of her death - it's just that I often have a subtle or unconscious thought when you hear the cause of death that they should have watched their blood pressure/cholesterol/not smoked/kept the weight off/etc. None of that here! Hope she was enjoying life to the very end! My grandfather is 93 now and I can see that some folks have a rougher time in old age than others.)
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