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Cora Gentry
Cora Gentry
Cora Gentry at her 110th birthday, with her great-granddaughter Tiffany Kesting (aged 35) and her great-great-granddaughter Emma Grace Kesting (aged 2).
Birth: 14 April 1897
Bibb County, Alabama, USA
Death: 11 April 2008
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
Age: 110 years, 363 days
Country: United StatesUSA
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Cora Gentry (née Boggs; 14 April 1897 – 11 April 2008) was an American supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

Biography[]

Cora Gentry was born in Bibb County, Alabama, USA on 14 April 1897. She was raised on a farm. She had 9 siblings: one sister and one brother are still living in 2007. Her sister Dillie Irene Boggs (16 Nov 1912 - 1 Feb 2014) died aged 101 and brother Horace Clifton Boggs (5 Jul 1916 - 29 Nov 2012) died aged 96. Her only child Roselle Fillmore Gentry b. 26 Jun 1917 died aged 83 on 29 Oct 2000.[1]

Cora Gentry died in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA on 11 April 2008 at the age of 110 years, 363 days.

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