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Good God. Deja Vu. Another 'World's Oldest Person' dead. Is this just a coincidence or this this a cursed title?<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>-Scott<br><br>> To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>> From: thansen@moscow.com<br>> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:47:43 +0000<br>> Subject: [Vision2020] World's Oldest Person Dies<br>> <br>> >From today's (November 28, 2008) Spokesman Review -<br>> <br>> ---------------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> World's oldest person dies <br>> Indiana woman was 115 years, 220 days old<br>> <br>> ---------<br>> <br>> http://tinyurl.com/5mye6n<br>> Edna Parker, the oldest person in the world, died Wednesday.<br>> (Photo: Associated Press)<br>> <br>> ---------<br>> <br>> SHELBYVILLE, Ind. – Edna Parker, who became the world's oldest person more <br>> than a year ago, has died at age 115.<br>> <br>> UCLA gerontologist Dr. Stephen Coles said Parker's great-nephew notified <br>> him that Parker died Wednesday at a nursing home in Shelbyville. She was <br>> 115 years, 220 days old, said Robert Young, a senior consultant for <br>> gerontology for Guinness World Records.<br>> <br>> Parker was born April 20, 1893, in central Indiana's Morgan County and had <br>> been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person <br>> since the 2007 death in Japan of Yone Minagawa, who was four months her <br>> senior.<br>> <br>> Coles maintains a list of the world's oldest people and said Parker was <br>> the 14th oldest validated supercentenarian in history. Maria de Jesus of <br>> Portugal, who was born Sept. 10, 1893, is now the world's oldest living <br>> person, according to the Gerontology Research Group.<br>> <br>> Parker had been a widow since her husband, Earl Parker, died in 1939 of a <br>> heart attack. She lived alone in their farmhouse until age 100, when she <br>> moved into a son's home and later to the Shelbyville nursing home.<br>> <br>> Although she never drank alcohol or tried tobacco and led an active life, <br>> Parker didn't offer tips for living a long life. Her only advice to those <br>> who gathered to celebrate when she became the oldest person was "more <br>> education."<br>> <br>> Parker outlived her two sons, Clifford and Earl Jr. She also had five <br>> grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and 13 great-great-grandchildren.<br>> <br>> Parker taught in a two-room school in Shelby County for several years <br>> after graduating from Franklin College in 1911. She wed her childhood <br>> sweetheart and neighbor in 1913.<br>> <br>> But as was the tradition of that era, her teaching career ended with her <br>> marriage. Parker traded the schoolhouse for life as a farmer's wife, <br>> preparing meals for as many as a dozen men who worked on her husband's <br>> farm.<br>> <br>> Parker noted with pride last year that she and her husband were one of the <br>> first owners of an automobile in their rural area.<br>> <br>> Coincidentally, Parker lived in the same nursing home as 7-foot-7 Sandy <br>> Allen, whom Guinness recognized as the world's tallest woman until her <br>> death in August.<br>> <br>> ---------------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> Seeya round town, Moscow.<br>> <br>> Tom Hansen<br>> Moscow, Idaho<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> ---------------------------------------------<br>> This message was sent by First Step Internet.<br>> http://www.fsr.com/<br>> <br>> <br></div><br /><hr />Access your email online and on the go with Windows Live Hotmail. <a href='http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_access_112008' target='_new'>Sign up today.</a></body>
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