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Bernice Bohannon is a long-time member of Bethel AME Church in Indianapolis, where she has been involved with the Mary Campbell Missionary Society and the Birthday Club. At the age of 105, she participated in a women’s missionary club at the church, where she helped to work on craft projects and visited ill members. She was also a member of the Show and Tell Society and Heritage Place of Indianapolis.
  
Bernice Bohannon is a long-time member of Bethel AME Church in Indianapolis, where she has been involved with the Mary Campbell Missionary Society and the Birthday Club. At the age of 105, she participated in a women’s missionary club at the church, where she helped to work on craft projects and visited ill members. She was also a member of the Show and Tell Society and Heritage Place of Indianapolis.
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Bohannon became the oldest known living person in Indiana on 27 May 2021, aged 111, following the death of 112-year-old [[Anna Garrett]].
   
 
Bohannon currently lives in Near Westside, Indianapolis, Indiana. In March 2020, she celebrated her 110th birthday. On 16 March 2021, two days after her 111th birthday, she got vaccinated against Covid-19, making her [[List of oldest people vaccinated against COVID-19|one of the oldest people to receive the vaccine]].
  
Bohannon currently lives in Near Westside, Indianapolis, Indiana. In March 2020, she celebrated her 110th birthday. On 16 March 2021, two days after her 111th birthday, she got vaccinated against Covid-19, making her [[List of oldest people vaccinated against COVID-19|one of the oldest people to receive the vaccine]].

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Bernice Bohannon
Bernice Bohannon
Bohannon in March 2017.
Unvalidated

Bernice Bohannon (née Jackson; born 14 March 1910) is an American supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

Biography

Early Life and Family

Bernice Bohannon was born on 14 March 1910 in New Castle, Kentucky, USA. She was the youngest of ten children born to Ollie Jackson and Olevia “Levia” Roberts. After her mother’s death in 1920, her father married Margaret “Maggie” Minor Scott, and she gained seven stepsiblings and, eventually, five half-siblings.

Bohannon attended public school in New Castle, where she met her future husband, Buford Bohannon. They married in 1926 and immediately moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where her husband's sisters lived. They lived in various locations on the near northwest side of Indianapolis, near Fall Creek. They had three children: Clarence J. Bohannon, Lillian B. Campbell, and Buford Bohannon. She worked as a seamstress and created tailored suits and furs. Her husband died in 1980.

Later Life

Bernice Bohannon is a long-time member of Bethel AME Church in Indianapolis, where she has been involved with the Mary Campbell Missionary Society and the Birthday Club. At the age of 105, she participated in a women’s missionary club at the church, where she helped to work on craft projects and visited ill members. She was also a member of the Show and Tell Society and Heritage Place of Indianapolis.

Bohannon became the oldest known living person in Indiana on 27 May 2021, aged 111, following the death of 112-year-old Anna Garrett.

Bohannon currently lives in Near Westside, Indianapolis, Indiana. In March 2020, she celebrated her 110th birthday. On 16 March 2021, two days after her 111th birthday, she got vaccinated against Covid-19, making her one of the oldest people to receive the vaccine.

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