Amazing Centenarians
Read about these amazing centenarians. Read their recipe for a healthy long life. What they do seem to have in common is an active life style. Strong family ties and to have a purpose in life. Many grew up in rural surroundings although some moved to towns in their adult life. An abundance of organic fruit and veggies were available in rural areas. Some enjoyed red wine in moderation. This contained resveratrol which is found in red or purple grapes. Resveratrol helps to lower blood pressure and allow a higher volume of blood to flow through your body, delivering increased oxygen and nutrients to the body’s cells. They also thought that a sense of humor and laughter was a contributing factor.
The 2010 census counted 53,364 people 100 and older in the United States and 1,769 in New Jersey.
Astrid Thoenig
When Astrid turned 103 years old, she went to work as usual at her family owned insurance company where she works as a receptionist. She has worked there for the last 30 years. She said, ‘I don’t think old and I don’t feel old. Astrid was born on the 25thSeptember, 1909. She survived the 1918 flu pandemic.
Jeanne Calment
Jeanne was born in February 1875 in Arles France. She died in August 1997. She lived for one hundred and twenty two years. She was an active lady and played tennis and rode her bike until an old age. She gave birth to one daughter. She enjoyed drinking a lot of milk and chewed on local herbs when not feeling well. Jeanne met Vincent Van Gogh at her father’s shop when she was a young girl. Jeanne attributed her long life to olive oil which she poured on her food. She also enjoyed port wine and loved chocolate.
Misao Okawa
Misao was born in Japan in March 1898. She died in April 2015. She lived for one hundred and seventeen years. She enjoyed ramen noodles, hashed beef and rice. Her favorite meal was sushi, particularly mackerel on vinegar steamed rice. This diet is high in omega rich nutrients. She also kept active with gardening.
Christian Mortensen
Christian was born in Skanderborg Denmark in August 1882. He died in San Rafael California US in April 1998 at the age of one hundred and fifteen years. His father was a tailor and he began work as a tailor’s apprentice at sixteen years of age. He later worked as a farmhand. Christian emigrated to the United States in 1903. He settled in Chicago where he had relatives. He worked at various jobs, including as a milkman, a restaurateur and a factory worker. He was married for less than ten years and then got divorced. He retired near Galveston Bay, Texas. At the age of ninety six he moved to a retirement home in San Rafael, California. He kept fit by riding his bicycle. Christian preferred a vegetarian diet. He also boiled his drinking water. Towards the end of his life he used a wheelchair. He enjoyed listening to the radio. He also enjoyed the occasional cigar. He attributed his long life to good friends, drinking lots of good clean water, no alcohol, an occasional cigar, keeping positive and singing.
Gertrude was born in July 1898 in Arkansas. She died in July 2015. She was the daughter of a sharecropper and worked as a domestic worker. She witnessed the civil war. After retiring she lived with her granddaughter. She moved to Silver Oaks in 2009. She did not drink or smoke. Gertrude enjoyed bible study, and “wheelchair dancing” at the center. What an amazing lady.
Gertrude Baines
Gertrude was an African American born in April 1894 in Shellman, Georgia, to parents who were born into slavery. She died in September 2009. She was one hundred and fifteen years old. She was married to Sam Conly and they had one daughter born in 1909 who died at eighteen. She also lived in Connecticut and Ohio. She lived on her own in California until 1999 when she was one hundred
and five years old. She then moved into the Western Convalescent Home in Los Angeles until her death. Before her death she had arthritis and was bedridden. She loved bacon and eggs as well as fried chicken and ice cream.
Maria de jesus dos Santos
Maria was born in September1893 in Olival Portugal. She died in January 2009 at Corujo, Tomar Portugal at one hundred and fifteen years. She got married in 1919. She had five children, three of whom are still living. Her husband died in 1951. One of her daughters lived with her. She went into hospital only once and was of good health .Maria enjoyed eating vegetables but avoided meat. She also enjoyed Portuguese rice pudding and ice cream. She never smoked or drank alcohol or coffee.
Mary Planten
Mary Planten lives at the Holland Christian Home in North Haledon. Mary is 107 and lives independently. She is engaging and loves email and puzzles. Except for aching joints she is healthy and gets around with a walker.
Moses Hardy
Moses was born January 1894 in Aberdeen Mississippi. He was the last black United States veteran of World War one He died in December 2006. He was one hundred and thirteen years old. During his life he was awarded a Victory Medal. He also worked as a bus driver, cosmetics salesman, farmer and deacon of the church. He spent his childhood on a farm with his parents. They were deeply religious and his parents were former slaves. After the civil war they purchased 265 acres in Mississippi. Moses married Fannie Marshall and they had eight children. He attributed his long life to a daily diet of cabbage, butter milk, corn bread, and potatoes. He never smoked or drank in his life.
Joan Riudavets Moll
Joan lived to be one hundred and fourteen years old. He was born in December 1889 and died in March 2004. He rode his bicycle until he turned one hundred. Joan smoked but in moderation. He attributed his long life to a diet using olive oil, fish, tomatoes and bread. He was a widower that outlived two of his three daughters. And he loved playing the guitar and singing.
Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper
Hendrikje was born prematurely in June 1890 in Smilde, Drenthe Netherlands, she died in August 2005 at the age of one hundred and fifteen years old. She got married to Dick van Andel in 1939. Her husband died in 1959. She became a needlework teacher and lived with her parents until she met her husband at 47 years. She lived on her own until she moved into a retirement home at one hundred
and five years. She attributes her long life to a diet of a herring and orange juice daily. She also kept active.
Walter Breuning
Walter was born in September 1896 in Melrose Minnesota. He died in April 2011 at Great Falls Montana. He lived to be one hundred and fourteen years old. He married his first wife Agnes in 1922. She died in 1957. His second marriage was in 1958 to Margaret, she died in 1975. His parents died early at 50 and 46 years. However longevity runs in his family as his grandparents lived into their 90s
and his siblings all died at advanced ages. During his birthday celebrations he said the following, ‘No wrong is really successful. The day will come when light and truth and the just and the good shall be victorious and wrong as evil will be no more forever. What wisdom, and so true. He attributes his long life to keeping his mind and body active.
Sarah Knauss
Sarah was born in September 1880 in the coal town of Hollywood. She lived a quiet life as a homemaker and insurance office manager.
She died in December 1999. She married Abraham Lincoln Knauss in 1901. He died in 1965. Sara moved into the Phoebe Home in Allentown, Pennsylvania when she was 110. Sarah was still active and got out of bed every day to go to activities. She moved around in a wheelchair. She lived to be one hundred and fifteen years old. Her daughter lived to be one hundred and one. She enjoyed chocolate, nuts and potato chips.
Besse Cooper
Besse was born in August 1896 in Sullivan Tennessee. She moved to Monroe Georgia before world war one to become a teacher. She got married in 1924 and had four children. She attributed her longevity to a alkaline lifestyle and said that she does not eat junk food. She died in December 2012 at the age of one hundred and sixteen.
Susannah was born in July 1899. She died in June 2015. Susannah was one of eleven children. Her father worked in the cotton fields in Alabama. She helped her father pick cotton until she went to New York. There she worked as a nanny. She spend the last thirty years at a public housing complex for the elderly in Brooklyn. New York. She took part in tenant secure patrols until she turned one hundred. Susannah has been blind for the last fifteen years. She started her day with a meal consisting of bacon, scrambled egg and ground corn. She did not smoke or drink. She had no children but had lots of nieces and nephews. Her niece attributes her aunt’s longevity to growing up in rural Alabama, where they had their own fresh fruit and vegetables.
Maria Esther Capovilla
Maria was born in September 1889. She died in August 2006 at the age of one hundred and sixteen years of age. Maria was from Ecuador in South America. She lived to the age of one hundred and sixteen. She lived in the Andes mountains. Her main diet was chicken, legumes, vegetables, fruit and corn.
Emma Morano
Emma was born in Civiasco, a mountain village, in Italy in 1899. She has survived two world wars. She married in 1926 and separated from her husband in 1938. She likes living on her own. Emma retired at seventy five years and lives in a two room apartment, in Verbania Italy. She eats biscuits with milk for breakfast. And attributes her longevity to the two raw eggs she eats during the day. She has pasta and minced meat for lunch and a glass of milk for dinner. She also drinks a glass of homemade brandy and enjoys chocolate. She is positive about the future.
Jeralean Talley(nee Kurtz)
Jeralean was an African American born in May 1899 in Montrose. She was one of eleven children. She spend her early years living on a farm picking cotton, peanuts and harvesting sweet potatoes. In 1935 she moved to Inkster and married Alfred Talley. She had one daughter. She had a long marriage of fifty two years. Her husband died at the age of ninety years. She lives with her daughter. Her secret to longevity is to stay active. She bowled until she turned one hundred and four. In her later life she did sewing and bible study. She enjoys potato salad, honey buns and chicken nuggets.
Jiroeman Kimura
Jiroeman was born in Japan in April 1897. He died in June 2013 at the age of one hundred and sixteen years. Four of his siblings lived past ninety years. And his youngest brother lived to one hundred. He was born to a farming family in a fishing village, one of six children. After leaving school at fourteen he worked for the Post Office. He retired when he was sixty five and then worked as a farmer until he was ninety. He attributes his longevity with early rising, reading the papers and having a interest in world affair. He lives with his grandson’s widow. His breakfast consists of rice porridge and soup.
Grace Jones
Grace was born in December 1899, in London. She died in November 2013 in London at the age of a hundred and thirteen years. She never married. Her fiancée died in world war one. Grace attributes her longevity to good, English food, never anything frozen. She lived alone. She died after a fall. Her memory and intellect were as sharp as ever until the end.
What do these centenarians have in common.
1. Positive attitude
2. Attitude
3. They include nutritious food in their diet.
3. They include nutritious food in their diet.
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