| Anna Lou Shively | |
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| Birth: | 14 May 1880 Center, Indiana, USA |
| Death: | 7 June 1992 Neffsville, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Age: | 112 years, 24 days |
| Country: |  USA
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| Validated | |
Anna Lou Shively (née Rivers; 14 May 1880 – 7 June 1992) was a validated American supercentenarian.
Biography[]
Anna Shively was born as Anna Lou Rivers in Center, Howard County, Indiana, USA, on 14 May 1880 as the daughter of James and Josephine Belle Rivers. She married Charles Shively in Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana, USA on 17 April 1904. On the very same day they set sail for the Phillipines, where Charles worked as a headmaster at a school, while Lou Anna was a music teacher. The couple made two trips to the Philippines. After returning to the United States in 1906, they lived in Kansas, Colorado and California, before moving to Huntingdon in September 1920, when Dr. Shively joined the faculty of Juniata College. In addition to his work at the college, they continued to travel widely. One year, 1929-30, was spent traveling in Europe. The couple settled in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania and had two children: Arthur and Ethel. She was widowed in 1958. After moving to Shippensburg to live with her daughter in 1968, Anna maintained a lively correspondence with her many friends in the Huntingdon area until failing health forced her to stop. She also lived in Sebring, Fla., for three years before moving to the Neffsville Brethren Village in 1977. She was a member of the Church of the Brethren, Shippensburg.
At age 104, Mrs. Shively won two first place awards in a cooking contest sponsored by the Food Service Department at the Village and she was also a "poster girl" for a statewide campaign urging senior citizens to vote. Anna Lou Shively died in Neffsville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania on 7 June 1992, aged 112 years, 24 days. At the time of her death she had three grandchildren and six great-grand children.