(Trends Wide) — Take out the sails, 115 of them. Bessie Hendricks, America’s oldest living person, has celebrated another lap around the sun. The Iowa supercentennial turned 115 on November 7, according to Trends Wide affiliate KCCI.
Hendricks was born in 1907. His life has included 21 presidents, two world wars, and the sinking of the Titanic.
In addition to being the oldest living person in the United States, he is also the fourth-oldest living person in the world, according to the Gerontology Research Group, which registers and certifies supercentenarians (people who have lived more than 110 years).
Hendricks celebrated her 115th birthday with her three children at Shady Oaks Care Center, according to KCCI.
“I don’t know how you put it in words,” his daughter, Joan Schaffer, said, according to KCCI. Schaffer turned 90 the day before her mother’s 115th birthday. “It’s wonderful that we still have it.”
Hendricks’ children described her as a loving and hard-working mother. Hendricks’ own mother died when she was just 13 years old, according to KCCI.
Currently, the title of longest living person belongs to Lucile Randon, a 118-year-old French nun, according to the Gerontology Research Group. The oldest person ever recorded was another French woman, Jeanne Louise Calment, who lived to be over 122 years old, according to Guinness World Records.
Calment died in 1997.
(Trends Wide) — Take out the sails, 115 of them. Bessie Hendricks, America’s oldest living person, has celebrated another lap around the sun. The Iowa supercentennial turned 115 on November 7, according to Trends Wide affiliate KCCI.
Hendricks was born in 1907. His life has included 21 presidents, two world wars, and the sinking of the Titanic.
In addition to being the oldest living person in the United States, he is also the fourth-oldest living person in the world, according to the Gerontology Research Group, which registers and certifies supercentenarians (people who have lived more than 110 years).
Hendricks celebrated her 115th birthday with her three children at Shady Oaks Care Center, according to KCCI.
“I don’t know how you put it in words,” his daughter, Joan Schaffer, said, according to KCCI. Schaffer turned 90 the day before her mother’s 115th birthday. “It’s wonderful that we still have it.”
Hendricks’ children described her as a loving and hard-working mother. Hendricks’ own mother died when she was just 13 years old, according to KCCI.
Currently, the title of longest living person belongs to Lucile Randon, a 118-year-old French nun, according to the Gerontology Research Group. The oldest person ever recorded was another French woman, Jeanne Louise Calment, who lived to be over 122 years old, according to Guinness World Records.
Calment died in 1997.
