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- Re: gertrude m. lewis--died at 110? From: Bart Versieck
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- Gertrude M Roode Lewis (née Walsh) - Census Matches From: Filipe Prista Lucas
- 3a.
- Re: Catherine Hagel, 113, breaks her sister-in-law's record From: Bart Versieck
- 4a.
- Re: Kayo Miyazaki 1897-2008 From: stefangelow
- 5.
- Myrtle Weston Aitkin (née Nelson) 1898-2008 From: Filipe Prista Lucas
- 6.
- Albert Krieg (née Armbruster) 1899-2008 From: Filipe Prista Lucas
- 7.
- Wong Shee Hue 1899-2008 From: Filipe Prista Lucas
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Re: gertrude m. lewis--died at 110?
Posted by: "Bart Versieck" yvohofmans@yahoo.com yvohofmans
Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:24 am (PST)
We knew she was at least still alive at age 108, but no news about
her since then, so she actually made it to 110 in the end, but only
just, for she was born Dec. 19th, 1897, making her 110 and 42 days.
--- In Worlds_Oldest_People@yahoogrou , "wop_groupmoderatorps.com "
<wop_groupmoderator@...> wrote:
>
> --- In Worlds_Oldest_People@yahoogrou , "weetinygrumble"ps.com
> <weetinygrumble@> wrote:
> >
> > The Boston Globe ran an obituary for mrs Gertrude M. Lewis who
> died in
> > a Newton Massachusetts nursing home on January 30th 2008 at age
> 110 in
> > todays Globe
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> A bit embarrassing, this case was right under our nose, but that's
> the way it goes. Often, a family wishes for anonymity.
>
> Here's some details, however, that are public:
>
>
> Home / Globe / Obituaries
> Obituaries in brief
> Email|Print| Text size – + February 9, 2008
>
> Gertude M. Lewis
> Gertrude M. Lewis, one of the oldest residents of Massachusetts,
> died Jan. 30 at Stone Institute & Newton Home for Aged People
> Retirement Homes in Newton. She was 110.
> more stories like this
> Mrs. Lewis was born in Lawrence and spent most of her adult years
> living on Pond Street in Belmont. She moved to the Stone Institute
> 20 years ago.
>
> In 1972, Mrs. Lewis joined King's Chapel in Boston and became
active
> in the church community. The Rev. Carl Scovel, a retired pastor of
> King's Chapel, recalled a group hike up Mount Monadnock that Mrs.
> Lewis, 85 at the time, wanted to join.
>
> "I didn't think it would be a great idea, and she said, 'I'll be
> fine.' And I stuck with her, and we got up there in two
hours. . . .
> I can tell you this, I never questioned Trudy after that," Scovel
> said.
>
> At 108, she insisted on taking the stairs, rather than the
elevator,
> to the dining room of the Stone Institute.
>
> "She knew that as you get older you have to stay active and she
was
> able to stay active," Scovel said.
>
> State officials can't confirm Mrs. Lewis's place among the state's
> oldest residents because of the way records are kept, but say they
> believe she is among the oldest.
>
> Mrs. Lewis was known as an excellent homemaker and cook. Both of
her
> husbands, Samuel Lewis and George Roode, died before her.
>
> She leaves a nephew, two nieces, and several grandchildren, great-
> grandchildren, and great-great grandchildren. Services are private.
>
> View/Sign Guestbook
>
>
> --------------------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
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> -----------
>
> Gertrude M. Lewis
> Age 110, of Newton, formerly of Belmont, Jan. 30, 2008. Wife of
the
> late Samuel Lewis and the late George Roode. Mother of the late
> Gertrude Kirkendall, Mary Martin and Allan Roode. Survived by
> several grandchildren, great grandchildren, great, great
> grandchildren, a nephew John Brisbois of Lexington and nieces,
> Louise Kelly of Somerville, June Scarina of Stoneham and Marie
> Malone of Wilmington. Private graveside service will be held in
Pine
> Grove Cemetery, Salem, NH. Anderson-Bryant Funeral Home 781-438-
0135
> Published in the Boston Globe on 2/5/2008.
> Guest Book • Flowers • Gift Shop • Charities
>
> Regards
> Moderator
>
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Gertrude M Roode Lewis (née Walsh) - Census Matches
Posted by: "Filipe Prista Lucas" fprista@hotmail.com pristalucas
Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:25 am (PST)
Below I paste an extended obituary, which confirms the census
matches also pasted below. All of them (except the 1920) confirm
that Gertrude Lewis was born December 19 1897 and died at the age of
110.
Filipe
Home in 1930: Salem, Rockingham, New Hampshire
George W Roode 63
Gertrude Roode 32
Gertrude O Roode 13
Allen W T Roode 11
Mary C Roode 8
Home in 1920: Salem, Rockingham, New Hampshire
George W Roode 53
Gertrude M Roode 26
Getrude O Roode 3 3/12
William A T Roode 1 1/12
Home in 1910: Cambridge Ward 1, Middlesex, Massachusetts
John J Walsh 41
Susie Walsh 40
Mary R Walsh 16
Gertrude Walsh 12
Susanna Walsh 8
Home in 1900: Lawrence Ward 6, Essex, Massachusetts
John J Walsh 27
Susan R Walsh 30
Mary R Walsh 7
Gertrude Walsh 2 (born December 1897)
Margaret L Walsh 0.12
http://www.wickedlocal.com/belmont/ news/obituaries/ x254761352
Belmont, Mass. - Gertrude M. Lewis, 110, of Newton, formerly of
Belmont, died Jan. 30, 2008. She was the wife of the late Samuel
Lewis and the late George Roode.
Born Dec. 19, 1897 in Lawrence, she was the daughter of the late
John J. and Susan (Shaw) Walsh.
She had been a resident of the Stone Institute of Newton for the
past 20 years. She had previously been a longtime resident of Pond
Street in Belmont.
Mrs. Lewis had been a member of King's Chapel in Boston since 1972.
At age 85, she climbed Mt. Monadnock with a group from King's Chapel
and outdistanced more than a third of the party to the summit.
The Rev. Carl Scovel remarked about her enormous intellectual
curiosity and her great vitality and zest for life. He mentioned
that she was an avid reader.. She was a caring person and very close
to the members of her family. She had the reputation of being a
wonderful cook and homemaker.
In addition to her two husbands, she was predeceased by her five
siblings and her three children: Gertrude Kirkendall of Winchester,
Mary Martin of Oregon and Allan Roode of Ohio; several
grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great- grandchildren; a
nephew John Brisbois of Lexington and nieces, Louise Kelly of
Somerville, June Scurini of Stoneham and Marie Malone of Wilmington.
A graveside service will be held for family members at Pine Grove
Cemetery in Salem, N.H.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Anderson-Bryant
Funeral Home of Stoneham.
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Re: Catherine Hagel, 113, breaks her sister-in-law's record
Posted by: "Bart Versieck" yvohofmans@yahoo.com yvohofmans
Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:25 am (PST)
However, I noticed another error, dear Robert: Edna Parker is not
from Kansas, but from Indiana.
--- In Worlds_Oldest_People@yahoogrou , "wop_groupmoderatorps.com "
<wop_groupmoderator@...> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I knew about Catherine Hagel when I worked on the Delvina
Dahlheimer
> case a long time ago (circa 2000), when she was just a
centenarian.
> By the time Delvina passed away at 113 years 72 days on March 13,
> 2002, Catherine was 107. I didn't really expect her to one day
break
> the Minnesota state record, but she did:
>
> http://www.startribune.com/local/ west/15467506. html
>
> Home | Local + Metro | West Metro
>
> Happy 113 years, 73 days -- but who's counting?
>
> Jeff Wheeler, Star Tribune
>
> Catherine Hagel is the fourth-oldest American.
>
> By WARREN WOLFE, Star Tribune
>
> Last update: February 8, 2008 - 10:05 PM
>
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> Cecilia Gulezinski gave her mother, Catherine Hagel, a kiss.
>
> Jeff Wheeler, Star Tribune
>
>
> John and Catherine Hagel on their wedding day in 1916.
>
> How long will you live?
> More from West Metro
> Cold art by warm hearts
> 2 injured as wrong-way driver on I-394 crashes into car
> No illnesses from suspect beef used in Minnesota
> Straddling two counties can be a bit awkward
> State's first fire fatality is identified
> During her first 111 years, Catherine Hagel was a doer, a talker
and
> a farm wife who taught her children, by example and expectation,
the
> value of hard work, a positive attitude and an utter trust that
God
> gets everything right.
>
> Now she lives in a quiet inner place, responding occasionally with
a
> word or faint smile as a nursing home aide offers a gentle caress
or
> her daughter speaks into her better left ear.
>
> Still, Hagel continues to break new ground. Today, at age 113 and
73
> days, she enters the record books.
>
> Hagel is the longest-lived Minnesotan, according to the
Gerontology
> Research Group, which documents and tracks "supercentenarians" --
> people 110 and older.
>
> This is the day Hagel surpassed the previous record set by her
> sister-in-law and good friend from childhood, Delvina Dahlheimer,
> who died at 113 and 72 days in 2002.
>
> She's also the fourth-oldest American and seventh-oldest person in
> the world -- the oldest being a woman in Kansas who is 114 and 295
> days.
>
> "Mom was really good up until she was 111," said daughter Cecelia
> Gulczinski, who at 89 is the oldest of nine surviving
children. "And
> she's still healthy enough -- there's nothing really wrong. She's
> just getting a little old."
>
> Hagel is in a rare group -- perhaps 300 worldwide -- who have
> reached at least age 110, according to the New England Centenarian
> Study at Boston College.
>
> Like most very old people, Hagel never held much with doctoring,
> takes no medications and comes from a long-lived family.
>
> "I don't know, people in our family just tend to live long,"
> Gulczinski said. "They say it's good genes, good lifestyle and
good
> luck -- oh, and not taking life too seriously."
>
> To aid in the search for clues to extremely long life, researchers
> at the Centenarian Study last year took blood samples from mother
> and daughter.
>
> "Maybe it's Mom's German blood," Gulczinski joked.
>
> Camping out in the garage
>
> Until she was 100, Hagel stayed on the 40-acre farm near Rogers
> after her husband died in 1966, keeping up a huge garden, sewing,
> quilting and holding court with visiting relatives.
>
> "When Mom was about 80 we tried to get her to move after the house
> burned down, but she refused," her daughter said. "She camped out
on
> a cot in the garage, then in an old trailer house till we rebuilt
> the farmhouse."
>
> Finally, increasing frailty and a painful case of untreated
shingles
> drove Hagel to leave the farm and move to Northridge Care Center
in
> New Hope.
>
> She was born Catherine Dahlheimer on Nov. 28, 1894, on a farm near
> Dayton.
>
> That year Grover Cleveland was president, Coca-Cola was first
> bottled and the Great Hinckley Fire killed more than 400 people.
>
> She was confirmed by the legendary Archbishop John Ireland and at
> age 22 married neighbor John Hagel.
>
> As her daughter talked, her hand stroking her mother's arm, Hagel
> stared into the distance, her gaze shifting occasionally to
> Gulczinki.
>
> "Mom was always so active -- in church, in the community, with her
> family. They say that's important to a good life when you get
old,"
> Gulczinski said.
>
> "She used to tell such stories -- about the Indians living nearby
> when she grew up, seeing her first car, meeting Dad when he came
> over to help on the farm, about growing up one of 10 kids and then
> raising 11 of her own," Gulczinski said.
>
> "Now I have to speak for Mom."
>
> How to reach old age
>
> Many researchers say that the lifespan of humans is about 125. The
> oldest confirmed person was Jeanne Calment, who died in France in
> 1999 at 122.
>
> "Why do some people live to be supercentenarians and others don't?
> We have some clues," said Dr. Thomas Perls, who started the New
> England Centenarian Study in 1994.
>
> Like Hagel, they have healthy hearts, lungs and circulatory
systems,
> and they don't have problems with cancer or dementia. They're
rarely
> ill and seem to deal well with stress.
>
> "When something bad would happen, Mom always said, 'Well, it's in
> God's hands,'" Gulczinski said.
>
> Though this story has a couple of errors...the New England
> SUPERcentenarian study is at Boston UNIVERSITY...it looks quite
> good. As for Catherine, I remember people back in 2004, 2005
wanting
> to visit her, wanting a photo of her, etc.
>
> Well, she is finally getting her day in the sun. Unbelievable.
Born
> in 1894, still with us in 2008.
>
> Yes, I pitched this story...ironically back to the same reporter
who
> mentioned her years ago. Some things don't change with time.
>
> Regards
> Moderator
>
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Re: Kayo Miyazaki 1897-2008
Posted by: "stefangelow" f95-sge@nada.kth.se stefangelow
Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:04 am (PST)
--- In Worlds_Oldest_People@yahoogrou , "stefangelow"ps.com
<f95-sge@...> wrote:
>
> Kayo Miyazaki of Hamamatsu town and the oldest citizen of Shizuoka
> prefecture, has died February 8th 2008. She was born 1897.09.17 and
> was therefore 110 years and 144 days old.
>
> http://www.shizushin.com/local_ fuhou/2008020900 0000000055. htm
The following obituary also says that the now oldest person in
Shizuoka prefecture in Japan is Ura Karasawa, 108 years old.
http://mainichi.jp/area/shizuoka /news/20080210dd lk22060032000c. html
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Myrtle Weston Aitkin (née Nelson) 1898-2008
Posted by: "Filipe Prista Lucas" fprista@hotmail.com pristalucas
Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:05 am (PST)
Myrtle Aitkin passed away 3 months shy of her 110th birthday, as
follows:
http://www.legacy.com/NWITimes/ Obituaries. asp?
Page=LifeStory&PersonId= 102747540
Myrtle Weston
MYRTLE WESTON AITKIN, MN Myrtle Weston, age 109 of Aitkin, MN,
formerly of Palisade, Royalton and Little Falls, passed away Friday,
February 1, 2008 at the Aitkin Health Services in Aitkin, MN. Myrtle
was born on May 13, 1898 in Chicago, IL, the daughter of Emil and
Augusta Mathilda (Thorne) Nelson. She grew up and attended schools
in Chicago. She married Charley Weston on June 15, 1921 in Chicago.
They moved to their homestead north of Palisade, MN where they
farmed, logged and raised their family. Her husband, Charley, died
in 1976. She then moved to Royalton, MN in 1977 and lived there for
15 years. Myrtle then lived in Little Falls, MN at Elder Heights for
nine years. She had resided at the Aitkin Health Services for the
past three years. Myrtle was a member of the American Legion
Auxiliary. She was the oldest Gold Star Mother in the United States.
She was a member of Bethel Lutheran Church in Palisade. She enjoyed
writing, playing piano, singing, had a great sense of humor and
dearly loved her family. Myrtle is survived by seven children:
Lawrence (Iris) Weston of Palisade, MN, Curtis (Kathryn) Weston of
Palisade, MN, Deane (Pearl) Weston of Grand Rapids, MN, Clifford
(Patricia) Weston of Magnolia, KY, Violet (Paul) Spolarich of
Palisade, MN, Maxine (Wallace) Carlson of Royalton, MN and Marlene
Weston of Grand Rapids, MN; two daughters-in-law: Margaret Weston of
Aitkin, MN and Martha Weston of Glasgow, KY; 40 grandchildren; many
great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren; and many loving
nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. She was preceded in
death by her parents; husband, Charley; four sons: Myrle, Charles,
Jr., Earle and Kenneth; three grandchildren; one daughter-in-law,
Genevive Weston; and 12 brothers and sisters. Funeral services were
held February 5, 2008 from the Sorensen-Root- Thompson Funeral Home
in Aitkin, MN with Rev. William Saeg and the Rev. Roland Jennings
officiating. Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery near Palisade.
Arrangements by Sorensen- Root-Thompson Funeral Home.
Published in The Times on 2/6/2008.
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Albert Krieg (née Armbruster) 1899-2008
Posted by: "Filipe Prista Lucas" fprista@hotmail.com pristalucas
Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:05 am (PST)
http://www.legacy.com/TimesLeader/ Obituaries. asp?
Page=LifeStory&PersonId= 102894919
Alberta Krieg
Alberta L. Krieg, 108, formerly of Washington Square Apartments,
Wilkes-Barre, died Thursday morning at the Heritage House in Wilkes-
Barre.
She was born in Wilkes-Barre, October 30, 1899, a daughter of the
late Henry and Frances Becker Armbruster. Mrs. Krieg was a member of
St. Nicholas Church and its Altar & Rosary Society, S. Washington
St., Wilkes-Barre.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Michael F. Krieg, in 1963.
She was also preceded in death by her brothers, Edward and Leo
Armbruster, and by her sisters, Irene Engel and Florence Bauman.
Surviving are daughter Mary F. Drank, Wilkes-Barre; son in law
Joseph A. Drank, Ashley; grandchildren Michael Drank, Harrisburg;
Diane Drank, Wapwallopen; David Drank, Laflin; James Drank, Red
Lion; Lisa Ann Drank, Harrisburg; great-grandchildren Kristen,
Kimberly, Justin, Jennifer, James and Jillian Drank, and Melinda
Adonizio; great-great-grandchildren Jacob and Andrew Adonizio and
Brodie Drank; nieces and nephews.
Funeral service will be held Monday morning at 9 a.m. from the Nat &
Gawlas Funeral Home, 89 Park Ave., with a funeral Mass to follow at
9:30 a.m. in St. Nicholas Church, 226 South Washington St., Wilkes-
Barre. Interment will be in the parish cemetery, Shavertown.
Friends may call on Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the
funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the
Heritage House, 80 E. Northampton St., Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701.
Published in the Times Leader on 2/8/2008.
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Wong Shee Hue 1899-2008
Posted by: "Filipe Prista Lucas" fprista@hotmail.com pristalucas
Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:05 am (PST)
http://www.legacy.com/SacBee/ DeathNotices. asp?
Page=LifeStory&PersonId= 102830013
Wong Shee Hue
HUE, Wong Shee
Oct. 1, 1899 - Feb. 2, 2008
Our beloved mother and grandmother passed away peacefully at the
Asian Nursing Home Saturday, February 2, 2008, at the age of 108.
She was born and raised in China, married and immigrated to the
United States in 1921. She was preceded in death by her husband,
Marshall Hue; their daughters and sons in law Alyce and York Fong;
Agnes and Art Fong; grandchildren Stephanie Tom, Susan Flood, and
Scott Hue. Survived by children: Frank Hue (Jane), Mary Ryan
(Larry), Louise Wada, Norman Hue (Doreen), Nancy Kunkel (George),
Patti Jong (Ed), and Larry Hue (Nora), including many grandchildren,
great grandchildren and great-great grand children.
Memorial will be held on Sunday, February 10, 2008, 12:15 p.m. at
Sacramento Memorial Lawn, 6100 Stockton Blvd. The family requests
memorial contributions be made to the Asian Nursing Home, 7801 Rush
River Drive, Sacramento, CA 95831.
Published in the Sacramento Bee from 2/7/2008 - 2/8/2008
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