Hendricks was alive to witness news of the sinking of the Titanic, World War I and II, the Great Depression and both the Spanish flu and COVID-19 pandemics.
LAKE CITY, Iowa — An Iowa woman who was believed to be the oldest living person in the U.S. has died at the age of 115.
Bessie Laurena Hendricks, of Lake City, died Tuesday at the Shady Oaks Care Center, according to Lampe & Powers Funeral Home in Lake City. Hendricks celebrated her 115th birthday at the home on Nov. 7 and was listed last year by the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group as the country’s oldest living person until her death.
Born in 1907 in west-central Iowa’s Calhoun County, She was a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse there and the mother of five children, according to the A funeral service for Hendricks will be held at Lampe & Powers Funeral Home on Saturday. The Gerontology Research Group reports that Hendrick’s death leaves 114-year-old Edie Ceccarelli of California as the country’s oldest living person.
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Iowa woman believed to be oldest in US dies at 115 years oldLAKE CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa woman who was believed to be the oldest living person in the U.S. has died at the age of 115. Bessie Laurena Hendricks, of Lake City, died Tuesday at the Shady Oaks Care Center, according to Lampe & Powers Funeral Home in Lake City.
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Iowa woman believed to be oldest in US dies at 115Bessie Laurena Hendricks celebrated her 115th birthday Nov. 7 and was listed by the Gerontology Research Group as the nation's oldest living person.
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Iowa woman believed to be oldest in US dies at 115 years oldBorn in 1907, Bessie Laurena Hendricks was alive to witness news of the sinking of the Titanic, World War I and II, the Great Depression and both the Spanish flu and COVID-19 pandemics.
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Iowa woman believed to be oldest in US dies at 115Bessie Laurena Hendricks celebrated her 115th birthday Nov. 7 and was listed by the Gerontology Research Group as the nation's oldest living person.
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Iowa woman believed to be oldest person in US dies at 115 years oldAn Iowa woman who was believed to be the oldest living person in the U.S. has died at the age of 115.
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Iowa woman believed to be the oldest person in the U.S. dies at 115Born in 1907, Bessie Hendricks was alive to witness news of the sinking of the Titanic, World Wars I and II, the Great Depression and both the Spanish flu and Covid-19 pandemics.
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