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“It all started by two people, my father Vernon and mother Vernita. My first 6 years of life, I was raised by my grandmother who gave me my life’s greatest gift. She taught me I was God’s child.
You could say 114-year-old Bernando LaPallo was made to last. "My mother, 105, she went to sleep. My grandmother, 107, she went to sleep. My father, 91, he went to sleep," LaPallo told KNXV.
A Pennsylvania woman who recently celebrated her 114th birthday is being recognized as the oldest living person in North America — and credits her very long life to abstaining from everyday vices.
The poem is written in the voice of an old woman in a nursing home who is reflecting upon her life. Crabbit is Scots for "bad-tempered" or "grumpy". The poem appeared in the Nursing Mirror in December 1972 without attribution. Phyllis McCormack explained in a letter to the journal that she wrote the poem in 1966 for her hospital newsletter. [4]
She moved into her final home in 1999 and would live there until her death, [4] where she lived with her 96-year-old daughter Dorothy Williams (born September 1, 1928), [7] and was cared for by her 69-year-old granddaughter Ethel Harrison. [5] [8] Williams was the oldest person in the world with one living parent. [9]
Old age is the range of ages for people nearing and surpassing life expectancy. People who are of old age are also referred to as: old people , elderly , elders , senior citizens , seniors or older adults . [ 1 ]
Image credits: Lone_Digger123 #6. This sorta doesn't count, but I'll tell it anyway. I was born at 24 weeks and 3 days through emergency c-section and weighed 1 pound half oz, and was 11 inches long.
This article lists living claims greater than that of the oldest living person whose age has been independently verified, Brazilian woman Inah Canabarro Lucas, aged 116 years, 234 days, and deceased claims greater than that of the oldest person ever whose age has been verified, French woman Jeanne Calment, who died aged 122 years and 164 days ...