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Lucy Hamm

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Lucy Hamm on her 110th birthday in 2018
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Lucille "Lucy" Hamm (née Franklin; 30 January 1908 – 20 August 2018) was an American supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group. She was one of the oldest known living people in the state of Missouri at the time of her death.

Biography

Lucy Hamm was born in Cairo, Illinois, USA, on 30 January 1908 to William and Anna (née Rice) Franklin. As a young woman, she worked sewing funeral shrouds for a mortuary business her sister operated, and also worked in her brother’s mousetrap factory. She married Joseph Hamm, a barber, and they had two children, and moved to St. Louis, Missouri. She claimed that he was a mean man and an alcoholic, and that he died at a young age, but sources differ on whether she left him or she was widowed.

Hamm worked for many years in a shoe factory in St. Louis, before retiring aged 72. She kept driving until she was 92. She lived in her own apartment in a retirement community for around 15 years, before moving into an assisted living facility in Chesterfield, St. Louis, in December 2015. As of February 2017, she had seven grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandson.

She died on 20 August 2018 at the age of 110 years, 202 days.

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