# Who was the oldest person you knew?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 15, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-oldest-person-you-knew/13922 "2000-02-15T16:05:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![okatym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/76d3ee/32.png) [@okatym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/okatym)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-oldest-person-you-knew/13922/41 "2000-02-18T17:06:00Z")

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Eve:  
You are a very interesting person.  
I am always intrigued by the things you write about. The same kind of things excite me!

But I still get Bucky. I saw him first. 🙂  
Katy

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**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-oldest-person-you-knew/13922/42 "2000-02-18T23:59:00Z")

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The oldest person I’ve ever known is my aunt, who is 96 and still very much alive (born January 1904). I attended her birthday party last month with her 7 children, 31 grandchildren, 64 great grandchildren, and 31 great great grandchildren.

She has a picture of my grandfather, grandmother, her, and two of her siblings taken the day the Titanic sank. I asked her how she knew it was that day and she said she remembers having the picture taken and her neighbor running up to the house talking about “a big ship that sank after hitting ice…so many poor people were killed.”

Her brother is still alive and is 94.

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