Supercentenarian Profile

Anita Schuck

Born:

1903-05-09

Boston, Massachusetts

United States

Died:

2014-05-10

Miami, Florida

United States

Anita Schuck was an American supercentenarian.

BIOGRAPHY

Anita Schuck was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on 9 May 1903. Schuck graduated in 1924 from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, earning a liberal arts degree.

In 1939, she moved to Miami with her husband, Guillermo, and their firstborn son, William, from Puerto Rico, where the couple had married in 1926. From 1954 until the 1970s, she worked in the book department at the downtown Burdines department store on Flagler Street in Miami, where she was eventually “forced to retire.”

She underwent hip surgery at the age of 102. According to her son, even in advanced age she remained mobile and healthy; at 100, she took no medication at all. He attributed her longevity to her upbringing on a farm in the Boston area, where she ate fresh, preservative-free food and walked frequently. He believed that her active lifestyle, healthy diet, and good upbringing all contributed to her long life.

Anita Schuck passed away in Miami, Florida, on 10 May 2014, one day following her 111th birthday. She was survived by her two sons, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.