| Hazel Skuce | |
 Hazel Skuce on her 110th birthday in 2022 | |
| Birth: | 7 February 1912 Blanshard Municipality, Manitoba, Canada |
| Death: | 3 January 2025 Brandon, Manitoba, Canada |
| Age: | 112 years, 331 days |
| Country: |  CAN
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| Validated | |
Hazel Skuce (née Short, formerly Patmore; born 7 February 1912 - 3 January 2025) was a Canadian supercentenarian whose age has been validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). She had been the oldest known living person in Canada from the death of 112-year-old Gertruda Gorecka on 25 June 2024, until her own death.
Biography[]
Hazel Skuce was born in Blanshard Municipality, Manitoba, Canada on 7 February 1912 to George Holwell and Esther (née Hyndman) Short. She had one brother, Lawrence Short (1920–2016), and two sisters, Muriel Myrtle (1917–2012) and Clara Hornibrook (1913–2022).
Her first husband's name was Dick Patmore. After he died, she married John Skuce. She never had any children.
Her brother Lawrence Short and sister Muriel Myrtle Westwood both died at the age of 95.
Her younger sister, Clara Hornibrook, died on 25 February 2022 at the age of 108 years, 166 days, making them one of the oldest sibling pairs in history.
Hazel Skuce died at Hillcrest Place Personal Care Home in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada on 3 January 2025 at the age of 112 years, 331 days. At the time of her death, she was the oldest known living person in Manitoba.
Gallery[]
References[]
- Validated Supercentenarians in Canada GRG
- Hazel Skuce GRG Bio
- 1916 Canada Prairie Census Government of Canada
- Murial Myrtle Obituary Castanet, September 2012
- Lawrence Short Obituary Winnipeg Free Press Passages, 9 July 2016
- 107-year-old marks birthday with sister, who's 105 Brandon Sun, 8 February 2019
- Clara Hornibrook Obituary Tribute Archive, 25 February 2022
- Brandon woman celebrates 112th birthday Brandon Sun, 8 February 2024
- Obituary Memories Chapel
| Canada's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • E) |
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Hannah Bradford • Flore Beland • Ellen Delaney • Emma Bingham • Herman Smith-Johannsen • Agnes Munce • Nellie Thompson • Alice Sjoquist • Lillian Ross • Marie-Louise Meilleur • Marie-Louise Meunier • Maria Mallozzi • Zelda McCague • Fanny Martland • Evangeline Saulnier • Anne Samson • Julie Winnefred Bertrand • Jennie Fitzgerald • Margaret Fitzgerald • Pearl Lutzko • Cora Hansen • Yvonne Lamoureux • Merle Barwis • Colombe Benoit-Leclerc • Orma Slack • Marguerite Wabano • Lilian Cornell • Ellen Gibb • Sarah Patenaude-Bruyere • Phyllis Ridgway • Cecile Klein • Shige Mineshiba • Mabel Mah • Helen Doan • Gertruda Gorecka • Hazel Skuce • Margaret Romans |