Bertha Fry

Infobox Person
name = Bertha Fry


image_size = 180px
caption =
birth_date = birth date|1893|12|1
birth_place = Vevay, Indiana, United States
death_date = death date|2007|11|14
aged age in years and days|1893|12|1|2007|11|14
death_place = Muncie, Indiana, United States
known_for = Supercentenarian
occupation = Teacher

Bertha Vanosdol Fry (December 1, 1893 – November 14, 2007) was an American supercentenarian. She was 113 years old at her death, but less than three weeks from reaching 114, and lived in Muncie, Indiana.

Fry was born in a farm in Vevay, Indiana, while Grover Cleveland was in his second (non-consecutive) term as President. There has been remarkable longevity in her family. Her mother lived to 90, and her father lived to be 95. Her first husband died in the 1930s, and she re-married during the Second World War. [http://www.globalaging.org/elderrights/us/longlife2.htm News Report of her 110th birthday] ]

At the time of her death she was the third-oldest living person in the world, although she was only the second-oldest in the state of Indiana. Edna Parker, who resides in Shelbyville, Indiana, was older and is, as of August 13, 2007, the oldest living person in the world. At the age of 113, on April 21, 2007, Fry met with Parker, at that time the second-oldest living person in the world, who had just turned 114 the day before. This set the highest combined age of two supercentenarians meeting at 227 years. [http://www.shelbynews.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=47473&SectionID=1&SubSectionID=&S=1 Governor pays weekend visit to honor Edna's 114th birthday] ] Fry died at the Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, of pneumonia. [ [http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071115/NEWS01/711150351/1002 World's third oldest person, Bertha Fry, dies at Ball Memorial Hospital] ] She is one of the 70 oldest people to have ever lived.

ee also

* List of the verified oldest people
* Longevity
* Oldest people
* Supercentenarian

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