LongeviQuest is pleased to report that the European Supercentenarian Organisation (ESO) has validated the age of Ethel Miller at 110. She was born in Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom on 8 October 1890. Miller was the second-oldest known person in the province of British Columbia, after Fanny Martland. She was a wife and a mother to 2 daughters.
Miller on her 110th birthday (Source: Vancouver Sun)
Miller celebrated her 110th birthday in 2000 with her daughter Phyllis, enjoying a sip of champagne and a small gathering with friends at her nursing home in Langara, Vancouver. Several local dignitaries attended Miller’s 110th birthday celebration; she also received a congratulatory message from Queen Elizabeth II.
She died in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on 23 January 2001 at the age of 110 years, 109 days.
LongeviQuest congratulates Ethel Miller’s family on her posthumous recognition.
For more information, please view Miller’s Directory Profile here.
LongeviQuest is pleased to announce the age validation of George Ives of Canada at age 111. She was born in Brighton, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom on 17 November 1881. He worked in his father’s workshop in Bristol until 1899. When he learned of Britain’s defeat at Colenso, South Africa, during the Second Boer War, he enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry. He stayed in South Africa until the war’s end in 1902. Ives was the last surviving veteran of the Second Boer War (1899 – 1902).
Ives at the age of 111 (Source: Gerontology Wiki)
After the war, Ives emigrated to Canada with his father and bought 160 acres of land for 10 dollars. He got married in 1910 and had six children with her wife. His wife did not like living on the prairies, so they moved to White Rock, British Columbia. They lived in the same house for 65 years. Ives was a farmer in White Rock until 1941. He then changed careers and worked in a shipyard constructing wooden scows until he retired in 1956. He lived independently until 1984 when he moved into a retirement home in Aldergrove, British Columbia.
Ives with Princess Diana at the age of 111 (Source: The 110 Club)
In November 1992, aged 111, Ives flew back to England to attend the Albert Hall ceremony for Remembrance Day and met several British dignitaries. He died in Aldergrove on 12 April 1993 at the age of 111 years, 146 days. Ives is believed to have become the oldest living man in Canada following the death of 109-year-old Philo McCandless on 22 June 1990. Two years later, he broke Eli Lindsay’s record as the oldest man ever to reside in Canada.
Ives was the first known man in Canada’s history to reach the age of 111. Upon his death, Canada’s oldest living man became Chester Pushie, then aged 108. He was the oldest British-born veteran of any war until 2007 when Henry Allingham surpassed his age.
LongeviQuest congratulates George Ives’s family on her posthumous recognition.
For more information, please view Ives’s Directory Profile here.
LongeviQuest is pleased to announce the age validation of Mary Horton of Canada at age 110. She was born in Chesterton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom on 4 February 1879.
In 1905, Horton married her husband in London and they had four children. The family moved to Canada in 1910 and settled in Nelson, British Columbia. At the age of 107, she lived with her daughter in the neighborhood of West End.
On her 110th birthday in 1989, with her daughter Nora Davis. (Source: The Vancouver Sun)
Horton passed away in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on 26 February 1989, at the age of 110 years, 22 days. She was survived by her four children, 5 grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.
LongeviQuest congratulates Mary Horton’s family on her posthumous recognition.
For more information, please view Horton’s rectory Profile here.
LongeviQuest is delighted to announce the age validation of Margaret Hack at 110 years old. She was a Canadian supercentenarian recognized as the oldest living person in British Columbia at the time of her death.
Hack was born in Kildonan, Manitoba, Canada, on 16 May 1906, with a maiden name of Margaret Miller Connery.
She was born to her Irish father James Connery and Scottish mother Mary Hoome.
In 1928, she married Edward John Hack and 12 years later, the couple moved to a ranch at Dead Man’s Lake. The two of them had no children during their marriage but always took care of foster children.
With her husband. (Source: Legacy)
Hack worked at a packing house for several number of years. After this, she retired and the pair moved to Osoyoos, British Columbia.
In the 1970s, Hack traveled the world with her husband by taking world cruises.
Margaret Hack passed away on 10 July 2016, in Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada.
For more information, please view Margaret Hack’s Directory Profile here.
LongeviQuest is joyful to announce the age validation of Lorna Best at 111 years old. She was a Canadian supercentenarian who was among the oldest living people in British Columbia at the time of death.
Best was born in Gilbert Plains, Manitoba, Canada, on 4 July 1903, with a maiden name of Lorna Alice Warren. She was the first child of her father, Charles Warren, who was an immigrant from England. Moreover, her mother, Edra Warren, had English and Irish ancestry.
Her father moved to Canada and worked as a farmer. Later on, he then decided to become the village’s secretary-treasurer in 1921. Lorna dropped out of college to replace her father’s position when he died in 1925 due to septicemia.
On her 105th birthday. (Source: Oak Bay Volunteer Services)
Gilbert Best, who was an owner of a fire insurance brokerage business, married her in 1928. The couple had two children named Shirley and Warren.
In 1966, her husband passed away. Fourteen years later, she moved to Victoria to live closer with her siblings in 1980.
Lorna Best passed away on 1 August 2014, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 111 years and 28 days.
For more information, please view Lorna Best’s Directory Profile here.
LongeviQuest has validated the age claim for Merle O’Hara (born 1912), a Jamaican-born Canadian supercentenarian. Mrs. O’Hara is one of the oldest living Jamaican-born people in the world.
(source: CTV News Vancouver / bc.ctvnews.ca)
Born Merle Romney in Kingston, Jamaica in 1912, Mrs. O’Hara lived most of her life on the island nation. She was married and had one daughter, with whom she currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Mrs. O’Hara’s age claim was validated by LongeviQuest on 16 January 2023 based on the research of Stefan Maglov.
