| Beatrice Mears | |
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| Birth: | 4 March 1888 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| Death: | 3 December 2001 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| Age: | 113 years, 274 days |
| Country: |  AUS
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| Validated | |
Beatrice Flora Mears (née McPherson; 4 March 1888 – 3 December 2001) was an Australian supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).
Biography[]
Beatrice Mears was born as Beatrice Flora McPherson in Tomsey Street, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia on 4 March 1888, the seventh of ten children. Her father, Scottish-born James McPherson, a stern Methodist, was the carpentry foreman at Harris Scarfe. Her mother name was Flora Neville. Beatrice went to the Franklin Street School and was apprenticed to a dressmaker but ill health caused her to leave after six months. She spent the following thirteen years at home helping her mother until she married in 1915. Beatrice and her husband, Percy Vinrace Mears, a commercial traveller, lived at St Peters until 1929 when they moved to her present home at Kensington Park. Their children, two girls, were born in 1918 and 1925.
At the age of 98, on 2 June 1986, Beatrice Mears gave an interview on Beth M. Robertson about her life.
Beatrice Mears died in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia on 3 December 2001 at the age of 113 years, 274 days. She is currently the second-oldest validated person ever from Australia, behind Christina Cock, and the oldest validated person from the state of South Australia. She was never the oldest living person in Australia as Cock was older than her and living at the time of her death.
References[]
- Table A - Verified Supercentenarians (Listed Chronologically By Birth Date) Gerontology Research Group
- Photo Gallery for Supercentenarians born in the year 1888, as of April 4, 2016 Gerontology Research Group
- Interview with Beatrice Flora Mears Digital Collections, 2 June 1986
- Beatrice Flora McPherson (1888-2001) Geni