Posted on 12/11/2006 8:45:01 PM PST by URist
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The world's oldest person has died.
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden was 116 when her time came today in a Memphis, Tennessee, nursing home. She'd lived there several years, but relatives say she spoke very little after a stroke two years ago.
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What a long life that "Lizzie" Bolden has lived!
Emiliano Mercado del Toro, a 115 year old Puerto Rican male, is now the oldest living verifiable person on earth.
Does that mean Helen is now the oldest?
MY EYES MY EYES!!!!
Oldest *person*, Andy. Cave Trolls reach her age all the time, but they usually have the good sense to stay in their caves...
That's mighty old. My wife has a great-grandmother who's 105 now, which probably puts her among top several oldest people in Texas.
Lizzie Bolden was around when Lizzie Borden took an axe.
did she attribute her health and longevity to good moonshine and see-gars?
The 2nd oldest person died a few days ago.
Amazing...RIP...a friend of mine died tonight that I have known for 22 years from a stroke...he lived a great life...sounds like Lizzie did as well.
I'm not sure that she really saw them...
Dude... harsh man...
"Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden was 116 when her time came today in a Memphis, Tennessee, nursing home."
OOPS - at first glance, I thought that said Lizzie Borden.
Read the Lizzie Borden Story: Did she murder her father & stepmother - The Crime library
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
And when she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.
The story was told in the 1964 film "Strait Jacket" staring Joan Crawford.
Must've had an OJ jury.
I'm starting to see a pattern here.
Dude, this is harsh!
I am sorry about your friend. Real friends are far and between!
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