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08-28-2006, 06:21 PM
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World's Oldest Person Title Moves To U.S.
POSTED: 9:48 am EDT August 28, 2006
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QUITO, Ecuador -- Tennessee may now be home to the world's oldest person.
The woman previously heralded by Guinness World Records-keepers as the oldest person on Earth -- a woman from Ecuador -- has died at 116.
Maria Esther de Capovilla was born the same year as Charlie Chaplin and Adolph Hitler. Her family said she always ate three meals a day and never smoked or drank hard liquor -- just a small cup of wine with lunch.
Her granddaughter told The Associated Press she also was fervently religious, had a "very tranquil character" and never let anything upset her.
A gerontology consultant for Guinness said that 116-year-old Elizabeth Bolden of Memphis now can be considered the oldest person, though there was no official announcement.
She was born 11 months later than Capovilla.
De Capovilla was born Sept. 14, 1889, and married in 1917. She was widowed in 1949.
Three of her five children are still living, and she had 12 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
The world's oldest man, a native of Puerto Rico, is 115.
World's Oldest Person Title Moves To U.S.
POSTED: 9:48 am EDT August 28, 2006
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QUITO, Ecuador -- Tennessee may now be home to the world's oldest person.
The woman previously heralded by Guinness World Records-keepers as the oldest person on Earth -- a woman from Ecuador -- has died at 116.
Maria Esther de Capovilla was born the same year as Charlie Chaplin and Adolph Hitler. Her family said she always ate three meals a day and never smoked or drank hard liquor -- just a small cup of wine with lunch.
Her granddaughter told The Associated Press she also was fervently religious, had a "very tranquil character" and never let anything upset her.
A gerontology consultant for Guinness said that 116-year-old Elizabeth Bolden of Memphis now can be considered the oldest person, though there was no official announcement.
She was born 11 months later than Capovilla.
De Capovilla was born Sept. 14, 1889, and married in 1917. She was widowed in 1949.
Three of her five children are still living, and she had 12 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
The world's oldest man, a native of Puerto Rico, is 115.