U.S Oldest woman dies at 114 year
A 114-year-old South Carolina woman who the oldest living American citizen is deceased, two of her daughters said Saturday.
Mamie Rearden of Edge field, who held the title as the oldest person in the country for about two weeks, died Wednesday at a hospital in Augusta, Georgia, said Sara Rearden of Burtonsville, Maryland, and Janie Ruth Osborne of Edgefield. They said their mother broke her hip after a fall about three weeks ago.
The Gerontology Research Group, which verifies information age to Guinness World Records, Mamie Rearden listed as the oldest living American after the death of the last month of the 115-year-old Dina Manfredini Iowa. Rearden's September 7, 1898, birth was recorded in the 1900 U.S. Census, the group Robert Young said.
Rearden was more than a year younger than the world's oldest person, 115-year-old Jiroemon Kimura of Japan.
"My mother was not chairman of the bank or whatever, but she was very instrumental in raising a family and a community person," says Sara Rearden, her youngest child. "Everybody can not be president of a bank or president of a college, but we feel as proud of her in her role as housewife and especially as mother and housewife."
Mamie Rearden, to her husband Oacy married for 59 years until his death in 1979, raised 11 children, 10 of whom survive, Sara Rearden said. She lived in the family homestead with a son and a daughter on land that had been in the family since her father accumulation of the area made him one of the largest in the area black landowners.
Her father sent her to earn a teaching certificate Bettis Academy on the other side of the province, and they would spend a whole day on a loaded wagon to school to get along unpaved roads, her daughter said. She taught for several years until pregnant with her third child.
In the mid 1960s at the age of 65, when a number decided to retire, she learned to drive a car for the first time and started as a volunteer for Edge field County program that had her drive to the end the remote rural roads to children whose parents were found making them home from school, Sara Rearden said.
Mamie Rearden always counseled that her children should treat others as they wanted to be treated and never gossiping or speaking ill of others included. Asked about uninspiring a preacher's sermon, her daughter recalled her mother saying. Well, it came from the Bible, "" She would never bad-mouth them. "
Mamie Rearden of Edge field, who held the title as the oldest person in the country for about two weeks, died Wednesday at a hospital in Augusta, Georgia, said Sara Rearden of Burtonsville, Maryland, and Janie Ruth Osborne of Edgefield. They said their mother broke her hip after a fall about three weeks ago.
The Gerontology Research Group, which verifies information age to Guinness World Records, Mamie Rearden listed as the oldest living American after the death of the last month of the 115-year-old Dina Manfredini Iowa. Rearden's September 7, 1898, birth was recorded in the 1900 U.S. Census, the group Robert Young said.
Rearden was more than a year younger than the world's oldest person, 115-year-old Jiroemon Kimura of Japan.
"My mother was not chairman of the bank or whatever, but she was very instrumental in raising a family and a community person," says Sara Rearden, her youngest child. "Everybody can not be president of a bank or president of a college, but we feel as proud of her in her role as housewife and especially as mother and housewife."
Mamie Rearden, to her husband Oacy married for 59 years until his death in 1979, raised 11 children, 10 of whom survive, Sara Rearden said. She lived in the family homestead with a son and a daughter on land that had been in the family since her father accumulation of the area made him one of the largest in the area black landowners.
Her father sent her to earn a teaching certificate Bettis Academy on the other side of the province, and they would spend a whole day on a loaded wagon to school to get along unpaved roads, her daughter said. She taught for several years until pregnant with her third child.
In the mid 1960s at the age of 65, when a number decided to retire, she learned to drive a car for the first time and started as a volunteer for Edge field County program that had her drive to the end the remote rural roads to children whose parents were found making them home from school, Sara Rearden said.
Mamie Rearden always counseled that her children should treat others as they wanted to be treated and never gossiping or speaking ill of others included. Asked about uninspiring a preacher's sermon, her daughter recalled her mother saying. Well, it came from the Bible, "" She would never bad-mouth them. "
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