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104-Year-Old Woman Dies After Breaking World Record for Oldest Skydiver
New York Post ^
| Oct. 10, 2023
| Patrick Reilly
Posted on 10/10/2023 5:39:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 104-year-old Chicago woman died on Monday morning just days after leaping out of an airplane and breaking the world record for the oldest skydiver.
Centenarian daredevil Dorothy Hoffner lived an “exciting, well-lived life,” a spokesperson for Skydive Chicago & U.S. Parachute Association, who shared the news of her death with the Chicago Sun-Times, said in a statement. The thrill-seeker’s cause of death was not immediately released.
Hoffner became the oldest person to jump out of an airplane with a parachute on Oct. 1, when she safely landed a 13,500-foot tandem jump at Skydive Chicago Airport in Ottawa, Illinois outside of Chicago. “Age is just a number,” Hoffner told the crowd after her record-setting seven-minute jump.
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Hobbies; Sports
KEYWORDS: centenarian; onfritsthevaxx
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To: nickcarraway
That is how it is done...living life to the very fullest before leaving the planet.
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:42:48 PM PDT
by
madison10
To: dfwgator
Not quite ‘Terminal Velocity’
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:43:06 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: nickcarraway
She didn’t land on a VAX needle did she?
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:43:40 PM PDT
by
HighSierra5
(The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:46:50 PM PDT
by
MNnice
To: nickcarraway
"...oldest person to jump out of an airplane with a parachute..." Curious phrasing.... was there someone older than that who jumped out of an airplane WITHOUT a chute?
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:49:02 PM PDT
by
alancarp
(George Orwell was an optimist.)
To: nickcarraway
Cut down I the flower of her womanhood! Such a tragedy!
To: nickcarraway
A 104-year-old Chicago woman died on Monday morning........cause of death was not immediately released." Okay then.
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:52:16 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(==)
To: nickcarraway
I just watched it today before I got this news.
She had fun it seemed. A life well earned.
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:53:18 PM PDT
by
eyedigress
(Trump is my President!)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:54:13 PM PDT
by
Rusty0604
(Despthaerately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
To: nickcarraway
Makes sense. After the jump, it was all downhill from there.
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:54:16 PM PDT
by
married21
(As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
Also of note, No Head Protection!
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:56:22 PM PDT
by
eyedigress
(Trump is my President!)
To: eyedigress
She probably has little physical reserve and this event pushed her over the edge. No pun intended. She mighta’ lasted till 114 if she hadn’t have skydived. Think of all the wisdom she could’ve imparted.
Anyway, sic transit Gloria and I salute her spirit.
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:59:57 PM PDT
by
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
10/10/2023 6:03:59 PM PDT
by
broken_clock
(Go Trump! Still praying.)
To: nickcarraway
I don’t get how tandem riding gets called becoming a skydiver.
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posted on
10/10/2023 6:05:46 PM PDT
by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: broken_clock
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posted on
10/10/2023 6:14:04 PM PDT
by
laplata
(They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
To: MNnice
Maybe she was holding off just to skydive; and then her life was complete :-)
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posted on
10/10/2023 6:14:31 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: nickcarraway
Trying to break her own record?
To: broken_clock
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posted on
10/10/2023 6:20:16 PM PDT
by
laplata
(They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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