Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Edith Rose Ceccarelli (née Recagno, formerly Keenan; February 5, 1908 – February 22, 2024) was an American supercentenarian. [1] At the age of 116 years, 17 days, she was the oldest person living in the United States and was also the second oldest living person in the world after Maria Branyas Morera from Spain.
Her mother died in 1920, and she and her five siblings were sent to different homes. She was sent to Houston, Texas, where she was raised by an aunt. She lived next door to her older sister Bertha Johnson (August 6, 1904 – February 21, 2011), before Johnson died at the age of 106; [4] she and Francis were among the oldest siblings on record. [5]
Related: World's Oldest Person, Maria Branyas Morera, Dies 'Peacefully and Without Pain' at 117 Francis was born in Louisiana on July 25, 1909 — when William Taft was president — according to ...
Elizabeth Francis, a Black woman from Texas who was the oldest known living person in the U.S., has died. She was 115. Her 69-year-old granddaughter, Ethel Harrison, told ABC News her grandmother ...
Houston, Texas resident Elizabeth Francis, who was the oldest known living person in America, died on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at age 115. At the time of her death, the supercentenarian was the third ...
Adelina Domingues (February 19, 1888 – August 21, 2002) was a Cape Verdean American supercentenarian who was the world's oldest person from the death of 114-year-old British-American woman Grace Clawson on May 28, 2002, to her own death less than three months later. [44] Domingues was born in Cape Verde.
Known as “Queen Elizabeth of Houston,” Elizabeth Francis died this week at age 115, making her the oldest person in the United States and the third oldest person in the world.
Branyas died of natural causes in her sleep on 19 August 2024 at the age of 117 years and 168 days. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] [ 27 ] After her death, Tomiko Itooka became the world's oldest living person. Itooka was born in 1908 and as such Branyas was the last living person born in 1907, which she held the title for following the death of 116-year old ...