Posted on 07/29/2005 2:30:16 PM PDT by Rakkasan1
ALBANY, Minn. (AP) -- The man believed to be Minnesota's oldest resident, Charles Young, has died. He was 110.
Young died Wednesday night at Mother of Mercy Nursing Home in Albany.
He was born Dec. 28, 1894, in Stearns County. The Gerontology Research Group, which tracks "supercentenarians" who reach the age of 110, listed Young as the fourth-oldest man it knew of in the United States, the sixth-oldest man in the world, and 57th-oldest person in the world as of July 20 by its records.
Young's family said through the nursing home where he lived that Young, at the time of his death, was believed to be the oldest person in Minnesota, based on the GRG list.
Young lived in Holdingford most of his life, working for the Standard Oil Company hauling fuel to farmers.
Young's wife of 59 years, Gertrude, died when she was 80.
Relatives said Young saw plenty of strife in his fivescore and 10 years -- including two world wars and the Great Depression -- but he never let it get to him. They said he was usually thinking ahead to his next prank or about who he could make smile, and they suspect that trait helped him live such a long life.
"He always laughed and whistled," said his daughter, Harriet Lampert
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I just can't fathom seeing all that this fellow has seen. I'm just hoping to make it to 70 someday, with the help of modern science.
You'll have to give up that rot-gut whiskey.
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