Oldest Person In The World Dies At 115
Oldest Person In The World Dies At 115
Edna Parker
Edna Parker who became the world’s oldest person more than a year ago, has died at age 115.
Parker was born April 20, 1893, in central Indiana’s Morgan County and had been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest person since the 2007 death in Japan of Yone Minagawa, who was four months her senior. Parker was the 14th oldest validated supercentenarian in history.
Now the new World’s Oldest living person according to Gerontology Research Group is Maria de Jesus of Purtugal, who was born September 10, 1893.
[...] the death of Edna Parker on November 26, 2008 age of 115, Maria de Jesus is the new oldest person in the world but according [...]