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Not to be confused with Mary Florence Walker and Mary Walker.

Mollie Walker
Mollie Walker
Walker on her 111th birthday in 2020
Birth: 5 February 1909
Cadoxton, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Death: 22 January 2022
Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
Age: 112 years, 351 days
Country: United Kingdom UK
Validated

Mary "Mollie" Walker, MBE (née Hybart; 5 February 1909 – 22 January 2022) was a British supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). She was the oldest known living person in the United Kingdom since the death of Gertrude Kingston on 28 July 2021 until her death. She is also the oldest MBE ever, the oldest known person ever born in Wales, and the oldest person ever to die in Berkshire.

Biography

Mollie Walker was born in Cadoxton, Wales, United Kingdom, on 5 February 1909. Her first car was an Austin 7, which she acquired aged 17. Walker drove many types of vehicle and taught many people to drive throughout her life. She drove until the age of 103. She married John Walker in 1931, and they had two children: Sheila and Graham.

During the World War II, Walker served in the Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS). From 1954 to 1979, she worked for Peppard Parish Council. She was later awarded an Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her work in the Civil Defence.

Following the death of Gertrude Kingston on 28 July 2021, Walker became the oldest known living person in the United Kingdom.

On 5 September 2021, at the age of 112 years, 212 days, she surpassed the age of Lilian Priest, becoming the oldest known woman ever born in Wales.

On 28 November 2021, at the age of 112 years, 296 days, she surpassed the age of John Evans, becoming the oldest known person ever born in Wales.

In her later life, Walker lived in Kingwood, Oxfordshire, England, in the house that she and her husband built in the 1930s. She died at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, Berkshire on 22 January 2022 at the age of 112 years, 351 days. After her death, Ethel Caterham became the oldest living person in the United Kingdom.

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United Kingdom's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (VE)

Frederick Stabbins • Jane ListerMartha Truelove • Ann Sharp • Jane Raby • Frances Smith • William Walker • Ann Russell • Eliza Roff • Ellen Palmer • Rachel MacArthur • Rachel SwainMary Davey • Thomas Pope • John Francklow • Rebecca Lees • Sarah Fitt • Elizabeth Sellwood • Matilda Coppins • Elizabeth Whitehead • Emma Rooke • Margaret Lunn • Sarah Humphrey • Caroline BealeFanny Hopkins • Elizabeth Etheridge • Sophia Wellstead • Rhoda Harris • Emma Weeks • Edith Grellier • Mary WorthingtonJane Stoneman • Ellen Dart • Elizabeth Kensley • Hannah SmithJohn Mosley TurnerAda Roe • Alice StevensonElizabeth WatkinsFrederick Butterfield • Rose Heeley • Agnes Helyar • James Harrow • Sarah Morgan • Lilias WilliamsFlorence PannellJeanetta ThomasAlice Brewster • Anna Eliza Williams • Kate Begbie • Charlotte Hughes • Daisy Adams • Rebecca Hewison • Annie Scott • Rachel Wieselberg • Lucy Askew • Annie Jennings • Eva Morris • Amy Hulmes • Nellie Bradley • Gladys Hawley • Lucy d'Abreu • Judy Ingamells • Emmeline BriceAnnie Knight • Ada Mason • Florrie Baldwin • Eunice BowmanAnnie Turnbull • Elsie SteeleMargaret Fish • Violet Wood • Grace A Jones • Ethel Lang • Gladys Hooper • Bessie CammOlive BoarGrace C JonesGwen PayneHilda ClulowBob WeightonJoan HocquardLilian PriestGertrude KingstonMollie WalkerEthel Caterham

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