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Margaret Whitlock
Margaret Whitlock
Birth: 5 March 1906
Seattle, Washington, USA
Death: 5 March 2019
Seattle, Washington, USA
Age: 113 years, 0 days
Country: United StatesUSA
Validated

Margaret Galloway Whitlock (née Anderson; 5 March 1906 – 5 March 2019) was a validated American supercentenarian.

Biography[]

Whitlock was born in Seattle, Washington, United States on 5 March 1906 to Scottish immigrants William and Jeanie Stewart Anderson. She married Victor Whitlock on 20 August 1930, and they had three children. She worked as a teacher.

In her later years, Whitlock resided in an assisted living facility in Seattle, Washington. In November 2016, at the age of 110, she reportedly voted in the 2016 US Presidential election.[1]

Whitlock was validated by the Gerontology Research Group on 7 February 2019. She was the oldest living person in the state of Washington at the time of her death. She died on 5 March 2019, her 113th birthday. She was the third and most recent person to die on their 113th birthday.

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