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08/07/2024 4:06 pm
Bonita Gibson was born in Hoxie, Sheridan County, Kansas, United States, on 4 July 1911.
She had an older brother, Daryl. When their parents separated, they were sent to live with an uncle and aunt in Mound City, Missouri.
Gibson met her future husband, Kenneth, in high school when he was a senior and she was a sophomore. They got married during the Great Depression in 1930.
Throughout her life, she survived battles with mumps, measles, and whooping cough during her childhood.
Following her husband’s passing in 2003, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to be near her son. Eventually, she moved closer to her grandchildren who had settled in Metro Detroit, Michigan. At the age of 102, she moved into an assisted-living facility in Canton Township, Wayne County, Michigan. She attended her first Detroit Tigers game at the age of 105 and visited a casino for the first time at 106.
On 1 May 2022, following the death of 114-year-old Ms. Dunham, she became the oldest living person in the U.S. state of Michigan.
As of July 8, 2024, she lives in Canton, Michigan, United States and she is the 5th known OLP in the USA.
As an infant.
As a child, with her older brother.
In 1917.
With her husband.
As an adult lady.
As an elderly lady, with her husband.
On her 109th birthday in 2020.
At the age of 110.
On her 111th birthday in 2022.
Aged 111 in April 2023.
On her 112th birthday in 2023.
Aged 112 in July 2023.
On her 113th birthday in 2024.
A photo collage in her Waltonwood Carriage Park room depicts highlights of Bonita Gibson’s amazing 113 years of living life to the fullest.
http://www.supercentenariditalia.it/persone-viventi-piu-longeve-in-italia.
Persone viventi più longeve in Italia – Supercentenari d'Italia (supercentenariditalia.it)
08/07/2024 5:25 pm
Bonita had a 105-year-old aunt (Amanda Belle Spear, 1860-1965) and a 100-year-old great-uncle (Austin Conrad Shafer, 1844-1944) on her father's side.
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10/07/2024 1:58 am
Bonita had a 105-year-old aunt (Amanda Belle Spear, 1860-1965) and a 100-year-old great-uncle (Austin Conrad Shafer, 1844-1944) on her father's side.
Austin even has his own Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Conrad_Shafer
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