Alma (El) Marie Kam was an American supercentenarian whose age has been validated by LongeviQuest.
At the age of 104. (Source: KSDK)
Supercentenarian Profile
Alma Marie Kam
✔ Age Certified by LongeviQuest
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BIOGRAPHY
Alma Marie Kam was born on 27 November 1913. She moved to California, before meeting her husband. They married in Reno, Nevada, and moved around the western USA from California to Portland and Spokane. They finally moved to Seattle in 1945. where they established their family home and ran a family bakery, Carolyn’s Cakes Bakery, for 52 years. Their local church and their children’s school were all located within an eight-block radius. She had four children, and at 104, she had seven grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
Kam passed away on 9 April 2026 in Seattle, Washington, USA, at the age of 112.
RECOGNITION
On 22 April 2024, following the passing of 110-year-old Dorothy Reed, she became the oldest living person in the U.S. state of Michigan, at the age of 110 years, 147 days.
Her age was verified by James Roberts and Eli Logan, and validated by LongeviQuest on 27 August 2025.
ATTRIBUTION
- “El Marie Kam – My Home Away From Home!” – St. Joseph Parish Seattle, November 2014
- “Woman celebrates 104th birthday, says happiness is key to long life” – KSDK, 1 December 2017
- “OBITUARY Alma Marie Kam” – Dignity Memorial, 9 April 2026
- “‘She is missed already’: Alma Kam, who was the oldest living Washingtonian, laid to rest” – My Northwest, 30 April 2026
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