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Ingeborg Johanna Mestad
Ingeborg Mestad
Birth: 15 December 1899
Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
Death: 5 June 2010
Arna, Bergen, Vestlandet, Norway
Age: 110 years, 172 days
Country: NorwayNOR
Validated

Ingeborg Johanna Jensdatter Mestad (née Hauge; 15 December 1899 – 5 June 2010) was a Norwegian supercentenarian whose age was validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) on 9 April 2018. She was the second-oldest person from Norway and the second to last surviving Norwegian person who was born in the 1800s (after Gudrun Onshuus) at the time of her death.

Biography[]

Ingeborg Johanna Jensdatter Hauge was born in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway on 15 December 1899 to Jens Johannessen Hauge and Marthena Larsdatter. She married Ola Mestad in 1936. Her husband died in 1961. She had 3 children, 11 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

Ingeborg Mestad died in Arna, Bergen, Vestlandet, Norway on 5 June 2010 at the age of 110 years, 172 days.

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