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Katherine Bodenbender
Katherine Bodenbender
Bodenbender in 2013
Birth: 19 April 1905
Marburg, Hesse, Germany
Death: 16 April 2017
Moline, Illinois, USA
Age: 111 years, 362 days
Country: GermanyGERUnited StatesUSA
Validated

Katherine "Katie" Bodenbender (née Zschocke; 19 April 1905 – 16 April 2017) was a German-American supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

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Katherine Bodenbender was born as Katherine Zschocke in Marburg, Hesse, Germany on 19 April 1905 to Otto and Christine Kleg Zschocke and emigrated to USA in 1930. She settled in Moline, Illinois and married her husband Henry Bodenbender the following year. The couple raised four children together. She was widowed in 1977.

Bodenbender lived in Moline, Illinois, until her death on 16 April 2017 at the age of 111 years, 362 days.

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