| Oldest American dies at 114
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America's oldest person, a 114-year-old woman who voted in every election since women earned the right in 1920 and had the thinnest file in her doctor's office, has died.
Verona Johnston died Wednesday at home in Worthington, said her daughter, Julie Johnson.
"She just wore out," Johnson said. "She was still very sharp up until a few months ago."
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She was born August 6, 1890, in Indianola, Iowa. She was the eighth of nine children born to Civil War veteran Joseph Calhoun and Emma Speer Calhoun. |
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 Wow! So my hopes of living to be 125 years aren't so far misplaced! I want to see the year 2100! | |
