2015 Archives

LongeviQuest is pleased to announce the age validation of Marguerite Wabano at 111 years old. She was a Canadian supercentenarian known as the oldest living person in the country at the time of her death.

Marguerite Wabano was bon on 28 January 1904. It was reported that she was born “out in the bush” along Ekwan River just north of the present-day Attawapiskat First Nation in Kenora District, Ontario, Canada.

She attended St. Anne’s Indian Residential School when she was around seven years old before. Just after two years of being at school, her family relocated deeper into the wilderness to protect her and her siblings from the authorities and the school.

As a young woman, she married Raphael “Napihen” Wabano along the Kattawapiskak River and eventually had seven children together. The family moved to Moosonee so her husband could search for employment. Around 1995, her husband passed away.

At the age of 110.
(Source: Paul Lantz)

When Mrs. Wabano was 99 years old, she got a pacemaker implanted in her. However, the doctors detected that it had stopped working and they were not sure for how long it had been inactive.

When she was 110 years old, she was living alone while occasionally receiving some help from her children or grandchildren. At this point, she could still walk while being aided by a walker.

Mrs. Wabano passed away on 13 November 2015 in Moosonee, Ontario, Canada. At the time of her death, she was 111 years old making her the oldest living person in the county at that time.

For more information, please view Marguerite Wabano’s Directory Profile here.

LongeviQuest is pleased to announce the age validation of Fujino Kuroda of Japan. She was born in Japan on 2 June 1904 and passed away in Ōnan, Shimane Prefecture, Japan, on 3 November 2015, at the age of 111.

On 9 March 2015, following the death of 112-year-old Kitsuyo Yamamoto, she became the oldest living person in Shimane Prefecture.

LongeviQuest congratulates Fujino Kuroda’s family on her posthumous recognition.

For more information, please view Kuroda’s Directory Profile here.

LongeviQuest is delighted to announce the age validation of Josefina Quirós Soto at 110 years old. She was a Costa Rican supercentenarian recognized as the oldest (known) living person of her country at the time of her death.

Josefina Quirós Soto was born on 12 April 1905 in Grecia, Alajuela, Costa Rica, to parents Amadeo Quirós Fonseca and Belarmina Soto Quirós.

She married Fernando Vega Kopper in 1928 and the couple had two sons and two daughters.

At the age of 107.
(Source: Elias Eduardo Chaves Alvarez)

Josefina was a distant relative of Marita Camacho Quirós, Costa Rica’s former first lady and oldest person ever.

At the age of 110 years and 178 days, Josefina Quirós Soto passed away on 7 October 2015 in Liberia, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

For more information, please view Josefina Quirós Soto’s Directory Profile here.

LongeviQuest is delighted to announce the age validation of Miki Imamura at 111 years old. She was a Japanese supercentenarian born on 4 March 1904, in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.

She graduated from Oe Girls’ High School which is now named as Kumamoto Face Gakuin High School.

Miki met her future husband, Daiki Imamura, at a Protestant church in Minamata. They later got married when she was 20 years old.

At the age of 75.
(Source: 柳屋本舗美貴もなか)

After the wedding, the couple started to sell daily necessities by managing a haberdashery. When Miki was 29 years old, the couple founded a Japanese confectionary shop. This is due to her husband wanting her to showcase her culinary talents. She trained under Japanese confectioner and researched on making red bean paste. Later on, she was able to commercialize her product named “Yōkan” which quickly became a popular confectionery in the area.

In the 1970s, she developed a new product with the help of her second son. She included her first name in the product’s name and called it “Miki Monaka.”

Miki Imamura passed away on 6 November 2015, in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. She was 111 years old at the time of her death.

For more information, please view Miki Imamura’s Directory Profile here.