Posted on 08/27/2016 1:35:32 PM PDT by Trump20162020
In 1993 in my Vietnamese Language parish an old woman died. Several of the old women approached me after mass and told me I had to come to the funeral and burial, that this was the woman the grandmothers called grandmother. So, of course, I went. She was born in 1880 and had a French birth certificate which was framed and set up beside her picture in the foyer of the church. I remember her as truly tiny, maybe 4’5” and at best 75 pounds. She had worn her calf length hair in the traditional Vietnamese style wrapped in a cloth tube and wound about her head and had the also traditional black enameled teeth. She came to America when she was 97.
You’ll realize long life is a curse when you have to start burying your children.
I don’t believe the age
If true he was thirteen years old when Krakatoa went off and seventy years when the Japanese invaded Indonesia (Dutch East Indies then).
Did you read that the US is still giving benefits to a dependent of a Civil War veteran?
She was born when her dad was 86! And that was pre-little blue pill!! Impressive!
Langoliers ate the past.
Wow. thanks for the tidbit of history. To think she was alive back when Vietnam still had war elephants. Really incredible.
More likely someone else did the honors while marrying her to the vet to get her the money.
Scams like that have a long history.
But I bet they look the same with their shirts off!
Your home page is truly wonderful.
Don’t give your age around here at FR! We have plenty of nasty ‘ageists’ around here. I hate using that term but some of those guys (and they’re always guys) are nasty.
“I can’t imagine how bizarre it must be for someone 145 years old.”
My mother is 99 and fully up to date on politics. She is still interested and has about 90% of her faculties. She saw the Wright Brothers fly at the Ohio state fair. She rode a horse to school. She had friends who lived in their covered over dug-out basements while they built their houses. She went to Batista’s Cuba.
Having said all that, cell phones are beyond her. The TV is a mystery, as in how to turn it on and off. The computer isn’t part of her life, nor will it ever be. My sister, at 72 also is having problems with those things. I am 62 and just got my first screen phone. I have zero interest in current entertainment and haven’t watched a TV since the OJ trial. I guess older people just learn the things that are important to them and not much else.
Wants to die? How many time married? Maybe some bad divorces?
Guess they don’t believe the Bible’s account of Methuselah. This man is not even close.
“I can’t imagine how bizarre it must be for someone 145 years old.”
At 95 my father hurt so badly and was in such bad shape he said several times he would be happy to die. His psychological bags were packed and left beside the door. He was waiting for Death to knock. (Of course, he wouldn’t have heard it, as he was deaf as a post. And, if I answered, I would have said, “Wait a minute! How do I know you’re the real Death?”)
ROFL!!!!
Why is only 29 years older than the oldest recorded person so unbelievable?
He’s not 235.
Out of 6 billion people why can’t he be the anomaly?
If the average age of death was 70, then it would be very hard to believe.
There’s a Bolivian guy who was documented as being ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THREE.
What’s another 22 years?!
Does he still get asked to show ID at the bar??
145
Seriously, I don’t believe it. The jump from 122 to 145 is too much.
LOL! Well maybe but her sibling was born when he was 84!
More I think about... you’re probably right.
“Someone else” visited for years! Dang! I thought the stud theory was pretty entertaining.
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