Posted on 03/03/2006 10:31:56 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Marion Bigelow Higgins, recognized as the oldest person in California, has died of congestive heart failure at her home in Leisure World. She was 112.
Higgins was recognized as the oldest person in California, the sixth oldest in the United States and the 11th oldest in the world, according to an Orange County Register report on Friday.
Officials with the state Department of Aging could not immediately verify Friday whether she was California's oldest person.
Funeral arrangements for Higgins, who died Thursday, were pending, relatives said.
"She finally began to show her age in recent months after 112 years of remarkably good health. Her mind remained sharp and attitude upbeat," her family said in a prepared statement. "She was ready and perhaps eager for the Lord to take her and she went peacefully."
Higgins, who was born in New York on June 26, 1893, participated in a study of "supercentenarians" conducted by the Gerontology Research Group at the University of California, Los Angeles.
In 2004, she was one of two "supercentenarians" featured in a National Public Radio story about people over 110. Higgins, who at the time listened to books on tape, attended yard sales and sang daily, said she was "generally healthy" despite being blind and unable to walk.
It's Bush's fault.
On the Net:
Gerontology Research Group:
http://www.grg.org
If only she could have enrolled in the confusing Prescription drug program, she would have been alive today.
Leisure World? Sounds pretty cool...
It's a city now, I think since 1999. Quite the happening place for senior citizens in SoCal.
Some good info on Centenarians, Click Here.
Neenah Ellis for NPR
Researchers expect that Marion Bigelow Higgins, born in 1893, and others her age or older will help science understand why and how human beings are able to grow so old in such relatively good health
LOL -- that's awful, but really funny.
I guess she outlived most of her close relatives. Not much personal information in this article.'
As of March 3, 2006, we have 67 Living Supercentenarians on this list (59 Females and 8 Males)
Table E ..
LOL that's exactly what I thought of. GMTA
From horse-drawn wagon to the International Space Station.
The things that girl has seen....
/john
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