08-26-2011, 01:17 PM
Hey Older Than Dirt! you're just a spring chicken, this lady in GA. turns 115 today! Bless her!
AJC
Besse Cooper, born around the time the vacuum cleaner was invented, turns 115 years old Friday in Monroe, adding another day and another year to her title as the oldest person in the world. It’s a title she has won, amazingly enough, twice.
At a birthday party in a nursing home that will be attended by family members and a researcher from Guinness Book of World Records, she’ll get her second oldest-on-earth plaque from the organization that certifies who among us is longest in the tooth.
“We thought one was enough,” her son, Sidney Cooper, 76, quipped Thursday.
This year’s celebration will be low key compared to last year’s birthday party that featured an Elvis impersonator![[Image: elvis.gif]](http://files.myopera.com/debplatt/smiley/elvis.gif)
hahaha But her son said his mom has slowed down this year, although doctors say she is still surprisingly healthy and all her vital signs are normal.
“She still remembers things and thinks clearly and talks,” said Cooper. “But she has her good days and her bad days. I’d say she sleeps about 80 percent of the time.”
![[Image: besse-cooper-turns-114-dt19_w800_h535.jpg]](http://athenscms.com/oa/zenphoto/cache/082710-monroe-s-besse-cooper-turns-114/besse-cooper-turns-114-dt19_w800_h535.jpg)
AJC
Besse Cooper, born around the time the vacuum cleaner was invented, turns 115 years old Friday in Monroe, adding another day and another year to her title as the oldest person in the world. It’s a title she has won, amazingly enough, twice.
At a birthday party in a nursing home that will be attended by family members and a researcher from Guinness Book of World Records, she’ll get her second oldest-on-earth plaque from the organization that certifies who among us is longest in the tooth.
“We thought one was enough,” her son, Sidney Cooper, 76, quipped Thursday.
This year’s celebration will be low key compared to last year’s birthday party that featured an Elvis impersonator
hahaha But her son said his mom has slowed down this year, although doctors say she is still surprisingly healthy and all her vital signs are normal.“She still remembers things and thinks clearly and talks,” said Cooper. “But she has her good days and her bad days. I’d say she sleeps about 80 percent of the time.”