Posted on 02/09/2017 2:13:56 PM PST by nickcarraway
A New Jersey woman who was the oldest American has died at age 114.
Adele Dunlap died Sunday at a hospital near Flemington, according to the Martin Funeral Home.
She became the country’s oldest person in July 2016 following the death of 113-year-old Goldie Michelson, of Worcester, Massachusetts.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
At least she got to see a President Trump.
again ?
Now we’ve all moved up on the list of Oldest People in America!
One of my grandmothers was named Goldie. That’s a name you don’t see anymore.
She was one of very few left born before powered flight....then witnessed man going to the moon.
Impossible. As soon as the oldest dies then there is a new oldest person, and so on...
I noticed that her mouth was gaped open in two photos. Perhaps she wasn’t able to clench her jaws shut. Hopefully, she had a nurse attentive enough to lightly spray some water inside the mouth every so often. Elder care means trying to keep doing what the person had spent a lifetime doing unaided and without thinking about it.
Sounds totally dangerous.
Is this the one who ate two raw eggs a day and that was it?
I keep getting the oldest person alive mixed up with another oldest person alive for some reason.
RIP old timer. Looks like you lived long enough to see your enemies float by in the river.
Sound be easy to find a replacement; according to your federal government, there are more than six million active social security numbers for individuals over the age of 112.
Worldwide, there are no more than 40 living people who are past the age of 110.
Of course, the Compost forgot to ask the obvious question: how many of the six million are still drawing a social security check? More than you might imagine. A couple of years ago, the hard-working folks at social security discovered a 117-year-old man, still receiving a monthly check, had actually died 40 years earlier. His son simply failed to inform the government when his father passed, and kept collecting his check for decades.
The fraud wasn’t discovered until the son died.
Right? Remember those Occupy Wall Street idiots?
They wanted to take away the wealth from the top 2% and give it to the poor.
Yeah? Then what? There is no more top 2%?
Then she's not the oldest person in America.
The King is dead. Long live the King!
She’s not exactly a millennial, is she?
That’s not possible. As soon as the oldest person dies, the next oldest person takes over. So there is always the oldest person continuously.
Crap. I just said the same thing before I read your comment.
Read a story once about some woman who asked her elderly grandmother what she considered to be the greatest technological advancement in her lifetime.
She expected the answer to be “spaceflight” or “television” or something like that.
The actual answer was “hot running water”.
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