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Joyce Marilyn Meyer Sommers (July 20, 1927 – December 18, 1996), also known as the Christmas Tree Lady, was a formerly unidentified American woman who died by suicide in a cemetery in Annandale, Virginia, on December 18, 1996. She was identified more than 25 years later on May 11, 2022.
Whitehead was born September 26, 1910 of African American descent in rural Georgia to Douglas and Pauline Washington, where she grew up on a farm picking cotton and tobacco. [2] She lived in Patterson, Georgia, in her youth with her older siblings Douglas, Clarence, Ellen, and Viola. [3] Her husband died in the 1980s.
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 64-year-old woman from the Midwest died Monday, in the “Sarco” device on Monday evening, according to The Last Resort, the company which developed and manages the machine.
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.
Born in Georgia on 26 September, 1910, Whitehead became the oldest living person in the US after the previous record holder, Elizabeth Francis, died last month at the age of 115.
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 ...
On February 4, 2021, 23-year-old American woman Sandra Birchmore (May 1997 – February 2021) was found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts apartment. Her death was initially ruled as a suicide by asphyxia; however, federal authorities later determined that her death was a homicide, with a local police officer alleged to have killed her.