Violet Brown

Violet Brown (born Mosse ; born March 10, 1900 in Duanvale , Trelawny Parish , British Jamaica ; † September 15, 2017 in Montego Bay ) was a Jamaican age record holder. At the age of 117, as of April 15, 2017, she was the oldest living person in the world and, along with the Japanese Nabi Tajima, one of the two last living people from the 19th century .

Life

Brown's date of birth varied, with March 4, 10, 13, and 15, 1900 being given. 2014 March 10th was officially confirmed by the Gerontology Research Group . She was born the second of four children to sugar cooker John Mosse and his wife Elizabeth Mosse in Trelawny Parish in the north of the island. At the age of 13 she was baptized as a member of the Baptists , and into old age she played the organ in the Frazerville Methodist Church . Brown had a daughter with her husband Augustus Gaynor Brown , who died in 1978. She also had five other children. For most of her life, she worked as a sugar cane farmer and accountant for the local cemetery.

On her 110th birthday in 2010, Brown became the first Jamaican supercentenarian . She was the oldest person from Jamaica at the time. With the death of Misao Okawa on April 1, 2015, she was one of the five oldest people alive. With the death of Susannah Mushatt Jones on May 12, 2016, she became the second oldest living person in the world. On July 6, 2016, Brown joined the list of the ten oldest verified people. She was also the sixth person known to live to be 117 years old. Together with Nabi Tajima , she was one of the last two living people from the 19th century. She was also the last person in the world to live under Queen Victoria's rule (Jamaica was a British colony at the time). She has been the oldest living person in the world since Emma Morano's death on April 15, 2017.

Brown was still a little physically active, she was in a wheelchair, but she made her own bed every morning. She was never seriously ill, didn't need reading glasses, and read frequently. She still lived in her hometown of Duanvale. The Violet Mosse Foundation, a non-profit organization with the aim of giving centenarians and other old people a better quality of life, was named after her. Brown's first child, Harland Fairweather (April 15, 1920 to April 19, 2017) lived with her and, at over 97, was probably the oldest person in the world with a living parent.

Violet Brown died on September 15, 2017 at the age of 117 years and 189 days. At the time, she was the fourth oldest person in history . The title of oldest living person went to the Japanese Nabi Tajima after her death .

See also

• List of the oldest people
• List of the oldest women

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Oldest Validated Living Supercentenarians . In: Gerontology Research Group . Retrieved November 29, 2016.
2. ^ The independent Mrs. Violet Brown . In: Tashieka Mair (July 16, 2007) . Archived from the original on July 31, 2015. The Jamaica Star .
3. ↑ Horace Hines (March 29, 2013). An extraordinary senior citizen - 'Aunt V' turns 113 . Jamaica Observer . Accessed January 2015.
4. ^ Sheena Gayle (March 8, 2010). 110-yo Trelawny woman reveals secret to long life . Jamaica Gleaner . Accessed January 2014.
5. ↑ Five things we learned last month . In: Slow Journalism , April 7, 2015. Archived from the original on January 10, 2017 Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 11, 2017.  
6. ^ Violet Mosse Foundation
7. ↑ Son of the oldest woman in the world died at the age of 97. In: Spiegel online. April 19, 2017. Retrieved April 21, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Violet Mosse Brown - 116 amazing years! . In: Jamaica Observer , May 23, 2016. 
9. ↑ World's oldest person dies - Moss Brown passes away at MoBay medical facility at jamaica-gleaner.com