Frank Mawer | |
Mawer shortly before his 110th birthday in 2022. | |
Birth: | 15 August 1912 New South Wales, Australia |
Death: | 17 September 2022 Central Tilba, New South Wales, Australia |
Age: | 110 years, 33 days |
Country: | AUS |
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Frank Mawer (15 August 1912 – 17 September 2022) was an Australian supercentenarian whose age was validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) in 2023. He was most probably the oldest known living man in Australia from the death of 111-year-old Dexter Kruger on 20 July 2021 to his own death at age 110.
Biography[]
Mawer was born in New South Wales on 15 August 1912. During the Spanish Flu Pandemic, Mawer's older brother died of the disease at just 20 years of age. Furthermore, his mother died while he was still just a 14-year-old child, leaving him to become a ward of the state.
When old enough to begin working, Mawer started work as a farm labourer and later in a factory. In 1939, Mawer married Elizabeth, an Irish immigrant he had met in a factory where they both worked. Together, they raised six children.
Elisabeth later moved into a care home after being diagnosed with dementia, and she died in 2009 after a 70 year marriage at the age of 91 from breast cancer. His sister Helen died in October 2020 at the age of 102.
Mawer attended Horizon Church in Sutherland, the same church which former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison attends.
In August 2020, when he turned 108, he had 13 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. At the time of his 109th birthday in 2021, Mawer still lived independently in his home in Gymea, New South Wales, Australia, and received a visit from a local care home employee four times a week. In August 2022, he celebrated his 110th birthday.
Mawer died in Central Tilba, New South Wales, Australia on 17 September 2022, at the age 110 years, 33 days, several weeks after contracting COVID-19.
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References[]
- The shire's remarkable Frank Mawer celebrates 108th birthday through a Zoom session The St George & Sutherland Shire Leader, 3 September 2020
- Australia's oldest man still lives on his own and puts down his longevity to good habits Downsizing, 15 August 2021
- Oldest living Australian Frank Mawer recalls highs and lows of history on 110th birthday ABC News Australia, 14 August 2022
- Australia's oldest man, Frank Mawer, dies aged 110 after contracting COVID-19 ABC News Australia, 20 September 2022
Australia's Oldest Living Man Titleholders (V • E) |
Robert Hewson • Gordon Williams • Frederick McGill • Bill Wallace • Robert McMieken • Kosta Malco • James Wright • Robert Jordan • Jack Lockett • Francis Kelly • William Caddy • Sydney Bond • Frank Scarrabelotti • John Campbell Ross • Claude Choules • James Hope • Anthony Hoffman • Fred Lunghusen • Alfred Date • Alfred Powell • Hilton Nunn • Dexter Kruger • Frank Mawer • Ken Weeks |