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Kimiko Ono
Kimiko Ono
Kimiko Ono on her 114th birthday in 2022.
Birth: 20 June 1908
Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Death: 31 October 2022
Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Age: 114 years, 133 days
Country: JapanJPN
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Kimiko Ono [Japanese: 小野喜美子] (20 June 1908 – 31 October 2022) was a Japanese supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

Biography[]

Early Life[]

Kimiko Ono was born in Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan on 20 June 1908. She was the second of seven siblings. She had one older brother, three younger brothers, and two younger sisters. She graduated from an elementary school in Wakayama City in March 1921. In November 1927, at the age of 19, she married Kitaro Ono [Japanese: 喜太郎]. The couple had four children (two sons and two daughters).

During World War II, Ono and her family were evacuated to Kokawa Town, Wakayama Prefecture (now Kinokawa City), where they lived until 1955. During that time, she worked growing crops. Her husband Kitaro died in 1962.

Later Life and Death[]

Ono moved to Osaka Prefecture at the age of 92. She lived with her children until the age of 107, when she moved into a nursing home in Sakai, Osaka. A keen traveller, she travelled all over Japan from Hokkaido to Okinawa, and when she was 107, she stayed overnight at Arima Onsen in Hyogo Prefecture.

Ono had no foods she disliked, and she especially liked to eat meat. She used to grate her vegetables herself to make and drink vegetable smoothies before blenders were in widespread use. She had good eyesight and she was reading the small letters in her booklet with the naked eye until she was 113 years old. At the time of her 114th birthday in June 2022, she was able to move her wheelchair around the nursing home on her own.

In September 2022, Ono was reported to be the second-oldest known living person in Osaka Prefecture, after Fusa Tatsumi.

Kimiko Ono died in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan on 31 October 2022 at the age of 114 years, 133 days. At the time of her death, she was the fourth-oldest validated living person in Japan, after Fusa Tatsumi, Kahoru Furuya, and Tomiko Itooka. She had also been the oldest known living person in the city of Sakai since September 2020.

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