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Frank Mawer
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: AustraliaAUS
Validated

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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Australia's Oldest Living Man Titleholders (VE)

Robert Hewson • Gordon WilliamsFrederick McGill • Bill Wallace • Robert McMiekenKosta Malco • James Wright • Robert Jordan • Jack Lockett • Francis Kelly • William CaddySydney Bond • Frank Scarrabelotti • John Campbell Ross • Claude Choules • James HopeAnthony Hoffman • Fred Lunghusen • Alfred Date • Alfred Powell • Hilton NunnDexter KrugerFrank MawerKen Weeks

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