He's starting to look it, too.
Posted on 07/08/2010 11:15:19 AM PDT by MissesBush
SACHIRE, Georgia – Authorities in the former Soviet republic of Georgia claim a woman from a remote mountain village turned 130 on Thursday, making her the oldest person on Earth.
Antisa Khvichava from western Georgia was born on July 8, 1880, said Georgiy Meurnishvili, spokesman for the civil registry at the Justice Ministry.
The woman, who lives with her 40-year-old grandson in an idyllic vine-covered country house in the mountains, retired from her job as a tea and corn picker in 1965, when she was 85, records say.
"I've always been healthy, and I've worked all my life — at home and at the farm," said Khvichava, in a bright dress and headscarf, her withering lips rejuvenated by shiny red lipstick. Sitting in the chair and holding her cane, Khvichava spoke quietly through an interpreter since she never went to school to learn Georgian and speaks only the local language, Mingrelian.
Her age couldn't immediately be independently verified. Her birth certificate was lost — one of the great number to have disappeared in the past century amid revolutions and a civil war which followed the collapse of the Russian Empire.
But Meurnishvili showed two Soviet-era documents that he says attest to her age. Scores of officials, neighbors, friends, and descendants backed up her claim as the world's top senior.
The Gerontology Research Group currently recognizes 114-year-old Eugenie Blanchard of Saint Barthelemy, France, as the world's oldest person. The organization is yet to examine Khvichava's claim.
Khvichava has a son, 10 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren and six great, great grandchidren.
Khvichava's 70-year-old son Mikhail apparently was born when his mother was 60. She said she also had two children from a previous marriage, but says they died of hunger during World War II.
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Heck I don’t find this so far fetched. In my last life I was killed by a jealous husband at 110 and in this life I will have to be more careful. :-)
Uh huh. I am totally buying this one.
That should read:
"...12 great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren."
Who proofreads this stuff, anyway?
Regards,
PATENT BULLSHIT
Is this Bagrat Topagua’s mom?
To All. Whatever you do, don’t ping Lazamataz to this thread.
The idea of him hitting this would be too much.
(For him)
He's starting to look it, too.
she was 130 in that yogurt commercial back in 1978...
I am sorry but I love this life but 130? I want to see Jesus sooner than that. I am 41 now so another 40 years is perfect.
My wife’s grand mother had a child that starved to death during the depression. The child was only a few weeks old and grandma was starving too and had no breast milk because of that.
“Khvichava’s 70-year-old son Mikhail apparently was born when his mother was 60.”
‘Um... sure.’
It happens.
http://www.globalaging.org/health/world/indianwoman.htm
What if her two children who died of hunger were grown up, even soldiers maybe, and a thousand miles away from her when they died?
I don’t know Obama was born in 1890 according to his social security records. Unfortunately he still looks healthy for that age.
Oh wow how sad. As someone else pointed out though, these were more than likely grown children if she is really 130 years old.
Someone else pointed that out. I really didn’t think it through. I saw children had died of hunger and assumed small children.
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