# Who is the oldest person you've known? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 8, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029 "2017-04-08T01:03:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029/21 "2017-04-08T18:00:43Z")
My mother’s cousin, who I knew quite well, made it to 95, almost 96. She was remarkably active and sharp until just a week or two before the end. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029/22 "2017-04-08T18:22:46Z")
A friend of mine just hit 95, and her younger sister is 94. Both are still active. ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029/23 "2017-04-08T18:53:08Z")
At the club where i work i routinely serve a couple of members that are 100…both are quite lucid and ambulatory. We also have a member that is 103…his family brings him in occasionally but he is kinda “out” of it. My paternal grandma lived to 102…my maternal to 98. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029/24 "2017-04-08T19:08:05Z")
I was a health aide so I knew a lot of people in their 100’s , one couple were married 80 years ! I think 102 was the oldest I knew . My mom lived to be 93 . ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029/25 "2017-04-08T19:23:02Z")
My step grandmother made it to 104. ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029/26 "2017-04-08T19:28:06Z")
My mom was 91 when she died. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029/27 "2017-04-08T20:19:44Z")
My cousin’s grandmother was somewhat older than 100 when she died—I’ve forgotten her exact age. She and her identical twin were in the running for the oldest twins in the USA but her sister died and knocked them out of the running. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029/28 "2017-04-09T02:27:32Z")
My maternal grandmother was less than a month from her 108th birthday when she died in 2012. She was born one year to the day from the Wright brother’s flight at Kitty Hawk. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029/29 "2017-04-09T14:41:48Z")
^ She wasn’t the first crying baby on an airplane flight, was she? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029/30 "2017-04-09T15:41:20Z")
My grandmother, who is still alive and going strong at 103. She was born in a real-for-sure log cabin (saddlebag style, with a dog trot through the middle) with no electricity or plumbing. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029/31 "2017-04-09T20:46:54Z")
My maternal maternal great-grandmother was 104 when she died. Still sharp. She lived until she died in an apartment in Washington Heights (in Manhattan, New York). She outlived her husband, who died in his nineties (can’t remember his exact age off the top of my head. When I was a kid, I had four living great-grandparents (two couples, one on my mother’s side, one on my father’s), which I think is pretty unusual. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029/32 "2017-04-09T23:05:07Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > My grandmother, who is still alive and going strong at 103. She was born in a real-for-sure log cabin (saddlebag style, with a dog trot through the middle) with no electricity or plumbing. That’s a life I’d like to hear more about! > [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > ^ She wasn’t the first crying baby on an airplane flight, was she? 😃 No, otherwise she wouldn’t have lived to be so old! I think her first plane ride was in her sixties. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029/33 "2017-04-09T23:10:25Z")
One of my great-grandmothers. She lived to be 103. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029/34 "2017-04-09T23:17:25Z")
My grandmother ([who I’ve posted about before](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=749358)) almost made it to her 104th birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029/35 "2017-04-09T23:48:01Z")
I remember that thread, and the joke your Grandma puleed! ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029/36 "2017-04-10T01:15:33Z")
My sister’s mother-in-law turned 102 in Feb and has only last month gone into full time care. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029/37 "2017-04-10T02:13:33Z")
104 seems to be a surprisingly popular choice. It’s mine too. My grandmother was 104 when she died. ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029/38 "2017-04-10T13:40:35Z")
I have had several relatives who have lived well into their 90s. Not sure which one was the actual oldest without checking birth records. ---
**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029/39 "2017-04-10T17:04:50Z")
My college roommate’s grandmother. She died two years ago at age 115- I think she was the 4th oldest in the world at the time (and one of the final four born in 18xx) and had gone through the full age verification in preparation. She’d been widowed for close to 80 years. She used to call our dorm room and then apartment to check on her grandson at least once a month- she was in her 90s at the time. We roadtripped to her house so I did meet her in person as well. I last interacted shortly after she turned 100. So had some great old person kookiness, but my favorite was that she was still thought that the wrong side won the war… the first world war that is. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029/40 "2017-04-10T17:08:30Z")
My Grandmother lived to be 103. Born in 1890 when there were only a few dozen automobiles in the world, mostly concept cars in Europe. The Model T was 18 years away. When she died we had landed on the moon and space was full of satellites. She could fly to Europe in a few hours on the Concorde. Both she and my mother had kids very late in life, especially considering the times (20 Years older than average for the time.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-person-youve-known/784029.md?page=3)