| Frances Byers | |
 Byers on her 108th birthday in 2023 | |
| Birth: | 23 January 1915 Hanover, Virginia, United States |
| Age: | 110 years, 321 days |
| Country: |  USA
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| Validated | |
Frances May Byers (née West; born 23 January 1915) is a American supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).
Biography[]
Frances May Byers was born Frances May West in Hanover, Virginia, United States on 23 January 1915 to parents Hugh West and May Hall.
Frances Byers grew up living at Scotchtown. At the age of 14, she left school to help support her family during the Great Depression and became a talented seamstress who made clothes for many people in her community.
On 27 December 1932, she married John Franklin Byers in Hanover, Virginia. The couple went on to raise seven children who succeeded in many professions, the military, and public office; who would later give her 28 grandchildren, 54 great-grandchildren, 55 great-great-grandchildren and 3 great-great-great-grandchildren.
Frances and her husband John worked as tenant farmers in the area until 1950, when they purchased a small farm of their own. She had generously volunteered her time to help the less fortunate in the community; she volunteered at a nursing care facility in Ashland for 16 years.
On 23 January 2025 she turned 110 becoming a supercentenarian.
Byers currently lives in Louisa, Virginia, United States at the age of 110 years, 321 days