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| - Greta (Grietje) Jansen-Anker (12 September 1897 – 13 October 2009) was a Dutch supercentenarian. She was the oldest person in the Netherlands between 19 May 2006 and her death on 13 October 2009, at age 112 years 31 days. She inherited the title after the death of 111-year-old Alexandrina van Donkelaar-Vink of Utrecht. She was also the third oldest person ever from the Netherlands at the time of her death.[3] Jansen-Anker was born in the harbour town of Vlissingen in the southwestern part of the Netherlands and lived much of her life in nearby Middelburg.[4] During her marriage she lived in 's-Gravenzande, a town close to Den Haag (The Hague) and Rotterdam. Only at the age of 102, when she moved to an assisted care facility, did she return to her native province of Zeeland. About ten years later, Mrs. Jansen-Anker moved to Rotterdam (in Zuid-Holland) at the age of 111. About her age, Mrs. Jansen-Anker had remarked that she did not esteem it special in any sense, and therefore wished to be left alone on special occasions such as her birthday. As such, mayors and province deputees were not welcome to attend her birthday, and she had a contract made forbidding her nursing home from contacting the media to talk about her high age. This explains why there are no known photographs of Mrs. Jansen-Anker. Having moved to Rotterdam to live in the same nursing facility as her daughter, Mrs. Jansen-Anker would still enjoy life for about one year until her health began to deteriorate; she would die in Rotterdam on 13 October 2009. After Mrs. Jansen-Anker's death at the age of 112, 107-year-old Bertha van Hasselt became the oldest person in the Netherlands, dying three days later.
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