Re: Oldest person you knew
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03/27/20 04:50 PM
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Knew a couple farmers in the community that lived to 100. Wife’s grandma is 97 and still lives at home. She fell shoveling snow this winter, and wasn’t happy when her shovels all disappeared. I hope I’m in that shape at 97
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Re: Oldest person you knew
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03/27/20 05:00 PM
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my wife's grandfather made 94
her grandmother 92
my great grandmother 92 she went out for a dinner and a concert by the lake the eve of her death and just never woke up , I think that is a nice way to go
my grandmother will be 92 in June
my parents neighbor should be 92 in a few weeks he is still very mobile he ha been the keeper at the cemetery since he retired 25 years ago
my Grandpas were both 84 one was only a few days short of 85.
my great grandpa made 88 but honestly it was all water pills and lungs filling with water after 85.
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Re: Oldest person you knew
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03/27/20 05:04 PM
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My great grandma is 103, still alive. Wishes we was dead though. It's sad. Her husband died in 1987 right after I was born, and she still goes by Mrs. Kenneth Jones. Up until she was 91 she was still climbing up on counters to clean. She broke her arm when she was 95 and recovered in 2 months, she had a heart attack and stroke when she was 96 and you couldn't tell 6 months later. After that, she was moved to a home, and now she spends her days strapped to a wheel chair, wanting each day to be over. She doesn't know anyone, she doesn't remember anyone, always confused. As sad as it would have been for everyone else, she probably would have liked it if no one had found her after her stoke and heart attack, and had died, then she could be re-united with her husband.
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Re: Oldest person you knew
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03/27/20 05:08 PM
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I knew several old farts.
Both grandma's. One died at 96 the other 97,
Great uncle's. 106 and 102 when they died. They were brothers.
Think of all the history they seen!
All of them were born in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
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Re: Oldest person you knew
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03/27/20 05:16 PM
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I have a lot of relatives who live into their nineties and a few who live into their hundreds. My great, great uncle Ed died at 106 and would be the oldest person I knew. His sister, my great, great aunt Goldie died at 99. In just a little over a year, I have lost my grandfather at 96, my great uncle Angelo at 100, my great uncle Charlie at 97 and my great aunt Helen at 96. In 2 generations, of one family on my mothers side, last century, 24 people lived over 100. The oldest lived to 111, most died between 104 and 106.
I don't think I will live very long.
Keith
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Re: Oldest person you knew
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03/27/20 05:19 PM
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great aunt lived to be 106
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Re: Oldest person you knew
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03/27/20 05:26 PM
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I've got an Uncle who is 93. My x-wifes father was 97 when he died. When he got to be about 93, or so, he started going by half years. 94--94 and a 1/2, 95 then 95 and a half 1/2, like kids when you ask them how old they re and they say 3 and a 1/2. He was proud of how old he was so he wanted to stretch it out as far as he could.
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Re: Oldest person you knew
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03/27/20 05:31 PM
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What year were these folks born? I think it’s amazing I knew someone born in the 1800’s Wife and I were talking about that a few months ago. Sad my kids will never know anyone from the 1800’s. Amazing all the technology they saw. All my great grandparents went from horse and buggy to Lincon town cars.
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Re: Oldest person you knew
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03/27/20 05:42 PM
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My GGpa was borned in 1896. He was onry but a wonderful Grandpa. He smoked, chewed and drank shine like water. People said he made the best shine around. He would give in to us kids and pick the banjo and sing for us. You could not leave his house without eating a apple. He had them year round in a huge wooden bowl. He didn't have electric or indoor plumbing till I believe the 60's, maybe early 70's. He never had a drivers license, a mule and sled was all he needed. The only time I know that he left that holler was when he was extradited to Frankfort for making shine. He was a miner and a farmer. He passed over in 85, 3 months shy of his 90th birthday. He was a hoot!
He's the oldest family I knew personally. The neighbor is 94, he does real good for himself and walks a mile every day.
I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
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Re: Oldest person you knew
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03/27/20 06:25 PM
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Neighbor lived to be 104. She was a widow for over 40 years. Was sharp until the end. She stopped mowing her lawn with a push mower when she was 96 because she broke her hip when she fell off a ladder painting her porch. .
She was a school teacher and told a story about the time she confiscated a revolver from one of her students. He and some friends were shooting bottles off of the back fence on the school playground during recess. She kept the revolver in her desk drawer until the boy's dad came in to get it. The world sure has changed.
-Ryan
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Re: Oldest person you knew
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03/27/20 06:43 PM
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My great aunt on my mothers side(my Godmother),lived to be 102. My great aunt on my dads side lived to be 102. She was also throwing hay bales well into her 80s. When I was up hunting or trapping,I would always stop in to say hello.That was the time for her to put on the coffee pot.One of my best remembrances of her at age 100--her getting her walker up to the stove to make coffee and rolls for our sit down. Tom
If my feet aren't wet,I must not be trapping. Tom Olson MTA life member#100,also WTA life member
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