Maude Farris-Luse

Maude Farris-Luse (aka Maud Luse)
Born	January 21, 1887(1887-01-21) Morley, Michigan, U.S.
Died	March 18, 2002(2002-03-18) (aged &10000000000000115000000115 years, &1000000000000005600000056 days) Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.

Maude Farris-Luse, (January 21, 1887 – March 18, 2002), also known as Maud Luse, was an American supercentenarian. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, she was the oldest person in the world from June 2001 until her death nine months later, at age 115 years, 56 days.^[1]

Birth, marriage and family

Maude Farris-Luse was born in Morley, Michigan on January 21, 1887. She married Jason Farris, a farmer and laborer, in 1903. She was 16, he was 23. They lived in Angola, Indiana at first, later moving to Coldwater, Michigan in 1923. They had seven children.^[1]

It was in Angola that she first saw an automobile.^{[citation needed]} According to the AP, over the years, she worked as a clerk in a factory, a hotel maid, a baker and a restaurant cook, retiring in her 70s.^[1]

Jason Farris died at age 72 in 1951, when Maude was 64. Her subsequent marriage to Walter Luse lasted only three years, until Luse's death.^[1] While her given name was "Maude", in her later years Farris-Luse spelled her name as "Maud".^{[citation needed]}

Supercentenarian years

In 1997, at the age of 110, Farris-Luse wrote a letter to Jeanne Calment, the oldest validated person ever.^[2] With the death of Marie Brémont on June 6, 2001, Guinness editors declared Farris-Luse the world's oldest person on June 23, 2001.^[2] In the absence of any birth certificate, they authenticated her age using U.S. Census Bureau records and her 1903 marriage license.^[1]

On March 28, 2002, she died of pneumonia at the age of 115.^[1][2] She had outlived six of her seven children.^[2]

Legacy

Farris-Luse holds the record as the oldest person ever from the state of Michigan.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of oldest people by U.S. state
• List of the verified oldest people
• Oldest people
• Supercentenarian

External links

• "World's Oldest Person Dies" CBS News

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Prichard, James, Michigan woman, recognized by Guinness as world's oldest person, dies at 115 years, 56 days, Associated Press 19 March 2002. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Maier, Heiner; et al. (2010). Supercentenarians. New York: Springer. ISBN 3-6421-1519-5. 

Preceded by Marie Brémont	Oldest recognized living person June 6, 2001 – March 18, 2002	Succeeded by Kamato Hongo (disputed)
	Oldest undisputed living person June 6, 2001 – March 18, 2002	Succeeded by Grace Clawson

Persondata
Name	Farrisluse, Maude
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	January 21, 1887
Place of birth	Morley, Michigan, U.S.
Date of death	March 18, 2002
Place of death	Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.