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Louise Gummels

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Louise Gummels
Louise Gummels
Gummels at the age of 109.
Birth: 16 October 1912
Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana (now Suriname)
Death: 7 April 2022
Paramaribo, Suriname
Age: 109 years, 173 days
Country: SurinameSUR
Centenarian

Esseline "Es" Louise Gummels van der Jagt (16 October 1912 – 7 April 2022) was a Surinamese centenarian who was the oldest known living person in Suriname at the time of her death.

Biography[]

Louise Gummels was born in Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana (now Suriname) on 16 October 1912, the eldest daughter of George Nicolaas Gummels and Louise Wilhelmina Juda. She lived in Nickerie until she was six. Her father had a German-Dutch father, and a Scottish mother. Her mother had a Jewish father, and an Afro-Surinamese (ex-slave) mother. Her mother died of the Spanish flu in 1919. She had three siblings, and three half-siblings.

In Paramaribo, she attended the Hendrik School and then got a job as an administrative assistant at the Military Hospital (nowadays 's Lands Hospitaal). She worked in the hospital until she married Martin van der Jagt when she was 21. The couple had four children (including Jan Gerard van der Jagt).

In 1943, she, her husband and their children moved to Aruba. They lived there until 1950. Back in Suriname, Martin got a job as a teacher in Moengo, and the family moved again. The family lived in Moengo for five years. Returning to Paramaribo in 1957, she went to work at the Varekamp bookshop, where she worked until her retirement in 1977.

Her father died in 1960. She was widowed in 1965.

In October 2021, she was reported as the oldest living person in Suriname.

Gummels died in Paramaribo, Suriname on 7 April 2022 at the age of 109 years, 173 days.

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