Oldest person dies at 114 in Connecticut

AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/29/07 | Stephanie Reitz - ap

[NormsRevenge]

Yone Minagawa, 114, now believed to be the world's oldest living person, looks on in her bed at the Keiju nursing home at Fukuchi town in Fukuoka Prefecture (state), southwestern Japan, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2007. Minagawa has a healthy appetite that's developed over the last 114 years, according to the nursing home's staff. Born Jan. 4, 1893, Minagawa has lived through four Japanese emperors and was fingered as the world's oldest person by the Guinness Book of World Records following the death Sunday, Jan. 28, 2007 of Emma Faust Tillman, also 114. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

[PBRSTREETGANG]

These "oldest people" are dying like flies lately. (Must be global warming.)

[NormsRevenge]

Oldest person sad news Ping

[Dallas59]

Too much excitement.

[Tax-chick]

She was born on a plantation near Gibsonville, N.C., where her father was born into slavery and where her parents and grandfather were sharecroppers ... . She was one of 23 children in the family, some of whom died at birth or in infancy.

Many of those who survived lived almost as long as Tillman, including a brother who lived to be 108, a sister who reached 105 and two others who reached 102.

NC ping!

[PGalt]

Condolences to Emma Faust Tillman's family and friends. WOW.

[RockinRight]

She doesn't look black.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

That's not Ms. Tillman.

That's the new "title holder", who is Japanese.

[Tax-chick]

That's because the lady in the picture is Japanese :-). She's the new "oldest person."

[NormsRevenge]

My apology, here is Emma, not very alert and weakened, living to 114 can do that to a person.

Emma Faust Tillman rests as her daughter, Marjorie Tillman helps prop her head back, at the Riverside Health and Rehabilitation in East Hartford, Conn., Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007. Tillman, who became the world's oldest known living person two weeks ago, died Sunday, Jan. 28, 2007. She was 114. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

[NormsRevenge]

Emma Faust Tillman, foreground, rests as her daughter, Marjorie Tillman, back left, great-nephew John Stewart Jr., second left, great-great nephew Jeffrey Stewart, second right, and great-great nephew John Stewart III, right, answer questions from the media at Riverside Health and Rehabilitation in East Hartford, Conn., Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007. Tillman, who became the world's oldest known living person two weeks ago, died Sunday, Jan. 28, 2007. She was 114. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

[KevinB]

Doesn't look a day over 112 to me.

[lafroste]

These "oldest people" are dying like flies lately. (Must be global warming.)

114 years isn't nearly enough. I must admit that I am not really enjoying the comprehension of my own mortality one bit.

[NormsRevenge]

That's very impressive numbers longevity-wise in that family, but they also suffered a high mortality rate in infants.

[RockinRight]

Her daughter's got to be at least in her 70s and I have to say she looks good for her age.

[RockinRight]

I missed that.

[NormsRevenge]

A lot of it is genetic I guess, she was "independent" up until 4 years ago,, I'll be happy to make 85 myself.. tho most of my grandparents made the high 80s or better

[highlander_UW]

God bless her

[Alia]

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[Old Professer]

"Her four-day reign was the shortest on record, said Robert Young, senior consultant for gerontology for Guinness World Records."

She's dead, Jim; she doesn't look a day over 25 but Botox can only do so much.