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07/11/2022 9:22 pm
Ms. Bessie Hendricks (OLP in the USA) turns 115 years old.
She was born on 7 November 1907.
She has been the OLP in the USA since the death of Thelma Sutcliffe on 17 January 2022.
Happy 115th Birthday!
07/11/2022 9:34 pm
Happy 115th birthday to the doyenne of the USA!
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07/11/2022 9:39 pm
Happy 115th!
07/11/2022 10:08 pm
Happy 115th birthday!
07/11/2022 10:36 pm
Just a thought: there's a good chance that Bessie met her great-grandmother, Julia Ann Wiltse (1823-1915), although they lived in different states (Iowa vs. Illinois).
Julia Ann might be one of the earliest-born people who still has a living descendant remembering them.
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Tracker and researcher of Hungarian and other Central European (super)centenarians (since 2016)
Enthusiast of extreme longevity (since childhood)
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08/11/2022 5:09 am
Happy Birthday! 115
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08/11/2022 7:28 am
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08/11/2022 2:32 pm
Happy 115th birthday, Bessie Hendricks!
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09/11/2022 11:47 am
Happy birthday Mrs. Bessie Hendricks, one of the strongest SCs for sure!
09/11/2022 6:46 pm
Congratulations to Bessie for reaching this rare milestone
I find her in the 1950 census at Calhoun, Iowa with the correct age of 42 indicated.
09/11/2022 8:16 pm
@pgibbs most documents for Mrs. Hendricks are consistent with a birth in 1907. Only the 1930 census suggests that she was a year younger.
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10/11/2022 2:12 pm
The 1930 census was a few months before her marriage I think. She might have forgotten her birthday in her excitement.
10/11/2022 5:52 pm
Daughter of Bessie Hendricks, celebrated her 90th birthday on 6 November 2022 (one day before Bessie's 115th birthday).
Her name is Joan Schaffer and she was born on 6 November 1932.
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11/11/2022 7:51 am
Happy Birthday Bessie Hendricks
Notwithstanding some of the extreme cases we’ve seen over the past decade, 115 is still a magnificent achievement.
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14/11/2022 9:45 am
Ms. Hendricks story finally getting major coverage: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/12/us/oldest-living-person-115th-birthday-trnd/index.html
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