Naomi Whitehead is now the oldest living person in North America at the astounding age of 114 years old. She received this title after the third-oldest person in the world, Elizabeth Francis, died at the age of 115 on Oct. 22, 2024.
Whitehead believes she has lived a long time because she has never smoked, never tasted alcohol, and has her father’s good genes (who lived to see his 90s).
““If the Lord gave it to you, use it.”
— Naomi Whitehead
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Whitehead is classified as a supercentenarian, someone older than 110 years old.
She was a child when the Titanic sank and when women were finally allowed to vote in the United States. She lived through both World Wars and two of the deadliest pandemics in human history: the influenza pandemic in 1918 and Covid 19 in 2020.
Even though her long life sounds fascinating, she’s also had to live through tragic events that no person should have to deal with.
““Speak your mind, don’t bite your tongue.”
— Naomi Whitehead
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Whitehead has even lived to see her great-great-great-grandchildren! One of her grandnieces said her stories were unparalleled by the rest of her family members.
As she holds her title of “the last American person born in the year 1910,” she resides at a senior living community in Greenville, Pennsylvania.
May she live a long rest of her life!