Flossie Elizabeth Page née Bishop (June 12, 1893 – February 22, 2006) was an American supercentenarian who broke the record for the oldest person of Kansas on record on February 9, 2006, the previous record of 112 years, 241 days having been set by Katherine Jones in 1992, and died exactly two weeks after achieving this feat. She was born in Haven, Kansas, and died in Butler County. The UCLA-based Gerontology Research Group ranked Page as the sixth-oldest person in the U.S. and eleventh in the world when she died, aged 112 years and 255 days. After graduating from high school, she taught at a one room school house near Lewis, and later worked at the War Risk Insurance Department in Washington, D.C. upon the start of World War I. Page married Fredric William Page in 1926, who died in 1967.
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| - Flossie Elizabeth Page née Bishop (June 12, 1893 – February 22, 2006) was an American supercentenarian who broke the record for the oldest person of Kansas on record on February 9, 2006, the previous record of 112 years, 241 days having been set by Katherine Jones in 1992, and died exactly two weeks after achieving this feat. She was born in Haven, Kansas, and died in Butler County. The UCLA-based Gerontology Research Group ranked Page as the sixth-oldest person in the U.S. and eleventh in the world when she died, aged 112 years and 255 days. After graduating from high school, she taught at a one room school house near Lewis, and later worked at the War Risk Insurance Department in Washington, D.C. upon the start of World War I. Page married Fredric William Page in 1926, who died in 1967.
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| - Flossie Elizabeth Page née Bishop (June 12, 1893 – February 22, 2006) was an American supercentenarian who broke the record for the oldest person of Kansas on record on February 9, 2006, the previous record of 112 years, 241 days having been set by Katherine Jones in 1992, and died exactly two weeks after achieving this feat. She was born in Haven, Kansas, and died in Butler County. The UCLA-based Gerontology Research Group ranked Page as the sixth-oldest person in the U.S. and eleventh in the world when she died, aged 112 years and 255 days. After graduating from high school, she taught at a one room school house near Lewis, and later worked at the War Risk Insurance Department in Washington, D.C. upon the start of World War I. Page married Fredric William Page in 1926, who died in 1967. She attributed her longevity to living a moral life, and taking no medication whatsoever
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