| 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 |
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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.
References[]
- 110-year-old inspires her friends and family Tuscaloosa News
