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Welford died at Parkview Manor Health Care Center in Humboldt, on November 14, 1992, at the age of 117 years, 66 days. She had been the oldest person ever from the United States after surpassing the age of Easter Wiggins on October 16, 1991.
Edith Ceccarelli died on February 22, 2024, at the age of 116. At the time of her death, she was the oldest living American and second oldest living person in the world. [10] Upon Ceccarelli's death, Elizabeth Francis took over as the oldest living person in the United States. [11]
Naomi Whitehead (née Washington; born September 26, 1910) is an American supercentenarian who has been the oldest living person in the United States since the death of Elizabeth Francis on October 22, 2024. [1]
Elizabeth Francis, who was the oldest living person in the United States, has died.She was 115. Her 69-year-old granddaughter and caregiver, Ethel Harrison, told ABC News on Wednesday that Francis ...
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 ...
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.
On April 16, 1998, she became the world's oldest person after 117-year-old French Canadian Marie-Louise Meilleur died. Knauss remains the oldest documented person from the United States, [9] and is the third-oldest fully documented person ever, after French supercentenarian Jeanne Calment and Japanese supercentenarian Kane Tanaka, who lived 10 ...
Elizabeth Francis shared her insights on how to live a long life before she died. Elizabeth Francis, a Black woman from Texas who was the oldest known living person in the U.S., has died. She was 115.