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Lake City, Iowa — An Iowa lady who was believed to be the oldest dwelling individual within the U.S. has died on the age of 115.
Bessie Laurena Hendricks, of Lake City, died Tuesday on the Shady Oaks Care Center, in keeping with Lampe & Powers Funeral Home in Lake City.
Hendricks celebrated her a hundred and fifteenth birthday on the house on Nov. 7 and was listed final 12 months by the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group because the nation’s oldest dwelling individual. The group additionally listed her on the time because the fourth-oldest individual alive worldwide, the New York Post reviews.
Born in 1907 in west-central Iowa’s Calhoun County, Hendricks was alive to witness news of the sinking of the Titanic, World Wars I and II, the Great Depression and each the Spanish flu and COVID-19 pandemics. She was a instructor in a one-room schoolhouse there and the mom of 5 kids, in keeping with the Des Moines Register. She is survived by three of her kids.
Hendricks mentioned when she turned 110 that the key to a protracted, profitable life is “hard work,” in keeping with an article in The Fort Dodge Messenger cited by the Post. But her son revealed that she additionally “[loved] her sweets.”
“A strong will and love of family keep Bessie going,” a care heart administrator mentioned on her birthday in 2019, the Post notes. “She appreciates life so much.”
A funeral service for Hendricks might be held at Lampe & Powers Funeral Home on Saturday.
The Gerontology Research Group reviews that Hendrick’s demise leaves 114-year-old Edie Ceccarelli of California because the nation’s oldest dwelling individual.
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