World's Oldest Person Dies at 116

sikdogg · 08-31-2006, 08:57 PM

How cool must it have been to see in one lifetime all that we've accomplished in the last 100 years... My wife's grandmother died at 96 years old just a few years ago. I used to get a kick out her stories about life without most of the comforts that we take for granted today. Grandparents are the coolest...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americ....ap/index.html

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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- Maria Esther de Capovilla, believed to be the world's oldest person, has died at 116, her granddaughter said.

Catherine Capovilla, 46, a property manager and real estate agent in Miami, said Capovilla died Sunday at 3 a.m. local time in a hospital in the coastal city of Guayaquil. She died two days after coming down with pneumonia. Her funeral was planned for Monday.

Born on September 14, 1889 -- the same year as Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler -- Capovilla was married in 1917 and widowed in 1949.

Robert Young, senior consultant for Gerontology for Guinness World Records, said Elizabeth Bolden of Memphis, Tenn., now appears to be the oldest person alive.

"Guinness World Records will have to make an official announcement from London," he said. "For all practical purposes, the next oldest person is going to be presumed to be Elizabeth Bolden. She is 116, but she was born 11 months after Capovilla."

Capovilla was confirmed as the oldest living person on December 9, 2005, after her family sent details of her birth and marriage certificates to the British-based publisher. Emiliano Mercado Del Toro, of Puerto Rico, retains the title as oldest man at 114.

Three of Capovilla's five children -- Irma, Hilda, and son Anibal -- are still alive, along with 12 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren, Catherine Capovilla told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

In her youth, Capovilla liked to embroider, paint, play piano and dance the waltz at parties, the family said.

She always ate three meals a day and never smoked or drank hard liquor. "Only a small cup of wine with lunch and nothing more," Irma told AP last December.

For the past 20 years, Capovilla had lived with elder daughter, Hilda, and son-in-law, Martin.

JonPop · 08-31-2006, 09:25 PM

R.I.P. Maria. God bless.

happy stud · 08-31-2006, 10:23 PM

Its too bad Martys wife didnt know this woman before she died. Living that long Im sure she had all kinds of things to keep that pussy smelling good.

10 · 09-01-2006, 03:27 AM

I'd have to say I agree dogg. My grandparents both lived to be nearly 100 a piece and my ex's grandmother died when she was 95.

The stories my grandparents used to tell me about their upbringings and all the shit they had to go through..........unbelievable. And when our computer crashes, we act like it's the end of the world. Makes you wonder what life was like precomputer era.

want8 · 09-01-2006, 03:26 PM

I agree Dogg. My grandparents were the best! Like you I always used to love sitting around listening to all the stories about how they grew up and the things they went through, like the great Depression. And 10 is right, now when our computer can't connect or our cell phone looses signal, we freak out! Man, imagine having to go back to those days!