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Lucy Knauss Biography

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I became awestruck when I have been reading about Gertrude Weaver, the oldest woman alive in America, over Wikipedia. I have read the Wikipedia pages for many people before, but this one was different. After reading the introduction, I moved to the biography that started with her birth place followed by her marriage details all in 4 lines. The very next paragraph started with her when she became 104 ages! No offend is intended at all, but I was just alarmed with this question: one hundred years summarized in only four lines! What did she DO in life?
What you will notice is that despite the long years these women lived, their best achievements were that they got married. To that extent, people take their lives easy!
Jeanne Calment
Born in 1875, Jeanne …show more content…

She lived in Pennsylvania and worked as an insurance office manager. She got married and gave birth to a daughter who was 97 when Sarah died.
Lucy Hannah
Lucy was born in 1875 in Alabama and died in Michigan in 1993. At the time when she died, Lucy was the oldest person in the world.
Marie-Louise Meilleur
Born in the year 1880 as a French Canadian, Meilleur followed Jeanne Calment in the Guinness record after the latter's death. Her parents died in 1911 after she gave birth to her two children. She used to smoke and died of a clot in her blood at the age of 117.
Maria Capovilla
Born and lived in Ecuador in the year 1889, Capovilla was 116 years when she died in 2006. Capovilla was the daughter of a colonel and got married to a military officer who died 49 years before her. When she was 100 years old her health deteriorated and people thought she was dead.
Misao Okawa
The oldest woman alive is a Japanese woman of 116 who was born in 1898 in Tenma. Until she was 110, Okawa was able to walk alone. Now she is using a wheelchair which she is pushing herself. In 2013, she was known as the world's oldest woman alive.
Gertrude

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