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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.
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.
[6] [7] Sharon Lee Gallegos: c. July 17–24, 1960 4 Congress, Arizona Unsolved, identified Kidnapping and murder victim, snatched from right in front of her house. Her body was found in the desert 10 days after her abduction. The exact cause of death remains undetermined, but was ruled a homicide. [8] 16th Street Baptist Church bombing ...
Now, America's oldest living person is Naomi Whitehead, who is 144 years old and was born on Sept. 26, 1910. This article originally appeared on Shreveport Times: Elizabeth Francis, America's ...
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.
Edith Rose Ceccarelli (née Recagno, formerly Keenan; February 5, 1908 – February 22, 2024) was an American supercentenarian. [1] At age 116 years and 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.
Stephanie Adams (July 24, 1970 – c. May 18, 2018) [1] [2] was an American model, author, and murderer. She was Playboy Playmate of the Month for November 1992.. On May 18, 2018, Adams killed herself and her seven-year-old son in a murder-suicide. [3]
Megan Taylor Meier (November 6, 1992 – October 17, 2006) was an American teenager who died by suicide by hanging herself three weeks before her 14th birthday. A year later, Meier's parents prompted an investigation into the matter and her suicide was attributed to cyberbullying through the social networking website MySpace.