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26/02/2026 12:31 am
Mrs. Etta Louise Burkhalter of Grand Rapids, Michigan (USA) sadly passed away on 23 February 2026, aged 113 years and 102 days.
She was born on 13 November 1912.
She was the 5th oldest living person in the United States.
https://obits.mlive.com/us/obituaries/grandrapids/name/etta-burkhalter-obituary?id=60883067
Rest in peace.
http://www.supercentenariditalia.it/persone-viventi-piu-longeve-in-italia.
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26/02/2026 12:50 am
R.I.P. Ms. Burkhalter.
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When the young commander of the guard declared his love for her, she rejected him simply because his frivolity startled her. "See how simple he is," she told Amaranta. "He says that he’s dying because of me, as if I were a bad case of colic."
-One Hundred Years of Solitude
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26/02/2026 5:51 am
Rest in peace Ms Burkhalter.
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26/02/2026 10:10 pm
Rest in eternal peace, Ms. Etta Louise Burkhalter (1912-2026).
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27/02/2026 10:38 am
https://longeviquest.com/2026/02/michigan-woman-louise-burkhalter-dies-at-113/
Michigan Woman Louise Burkhalter Dies at 113
Etta Louise Burkhalter, a resident of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, passed away on 23 February, at the age of 113 years, 102 days.
Burkhalter was born as Etta Louise Jones in Hillsborough County, Florida, on 13 November 1912, to John and Sarah Jones. She caught the Spanish flu at the age of 5. Her mother died of tuberculosis at the age of 43, when Etta Louise was 13 years old.
On 16 December 1929, she married Carl Burkhalter. During the Great Depression, the couple moved from Tampa to Harrison, Michigan, where they built a house on a farm and raised their three daughters. Her husband passed away in 1992, after 62 years of marriage.
At the time of her passing, she was the second-oldest living person in Michigan, after Bonita Gibson.
http://www.supercentenariditalia.it/persone-viventi-piu-longeve-in-italia.
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25/03/2026 1:59 am
She is the oldest person in history born in Florida.
She is the 10th oldest person to die in Michigan.
She is the 172nd oldest person in US history.
She is the 449th oldest person in history, tied with Tome Takaoka (January 1, 1899 – April 12, 2012, Japan).
She was the 21st oldest living person in the world.
