R.I.P Oldest Living American

WESTMORELAND, N.H. -- A New Hampshire woman certified as the oldest person living in the United States has died.

Mary Josephine Ray died Sunday at a Westmoreland nursing home at 114 years and 294 days old.
The Gerontology Research Group said that until her death, Ray was the oldest person in the United States and the second oldest person in the world.
The title of oldest living American now goes to Neva Morris, of Ames, Iowa, who is 114 years 216 days.
The oldest person in the world is Kama Chinen, of Japan. She is 114 years 301 days.
Ray was born in Prince Edward Island, Canada. She moved to the United States at age 3.
She lived for 60 years in Anson, Maine, and moved to Westmoreland in 2002 to be near her children.
A funeral is set for Thursday in Madison, Maine.



Is anyone baffled that the oldest lady in the world lived in New Hampshire and was originally from Maine? Don't all old people from New England move south down to Sarasota, FL or something? Like I don't get it.


That has got to do something with her lasting all this time though. As much as the elderly think the cold weather is bad for them and their arthritis just maybe the sunny warm sun in Florida is killing them.


Or just maybe, just maybe. The cold weather was helping preserve her old fragile skin and bones and she actually died years ago. Hey it could happen. Live free, errr feeble or die muthafuckas.


PS- If I'm gonna look like that at age 114, I hope I die a half a century earlier.