Posted on Friday, 28th November 2008 by Bill Bean
November 28, 2008
Edna Parker, world’s oldest person, dies at 115
Shelbyville woman is recalled as energetic, inquisitive, independent
By Heather Gillers
heather.gillers@indystar.com
SHELBYVILLE, Ind.
– Edna Parker was in her 80s the day she and her teenage granddaughter
found themselves stuck at home with no way to get to Parker’s son a few miles away.
“I said, ‘How will we get there?’ ” recalled granddaughter Vicki Kozlow,
now 47 and a resident of Mio, Mich. “She said, ‘Well, you got a minibike, don’t you?’ “
So the teen and the octogenarian hopped onto the minibike, Kozlow said, “and away we went.”
That was one of the recollections family members shared about the remarkable life of Parker — recognized for the past 15 months as the world’s oldest person — after her death Wednesday in a Shelbyville nursinghome.
She was 115 years and 120 days old.
ยป Did you know? Edna
Parker lived in the same Shelbyville nursing home as Sandy Allen,
recognized in 1975 by Guinness World Records as the world’s tallest
woman. Allen, who was 7 feet 7 inches tall, died Aug. 13 at age 50
after a long illness.
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