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Rank Name Birth Death Age birth death
1 Charlie Nelson 21 September 1867 20 August 1978 110 years, 333 days Ohio Guthrie Center
2 Frank Ahmann 11 May 1889 22 March 2000 110 years, 316 days Remsen Le Mars
3 Edward Stuekerjuergen 29 July 1892 11 February 2002 109 years, 197 days Houghton West Point
4 Donald Johnson 27 March 1916 Living 109 years, 86 days Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids
5 Paul Olson 10 December 1905 11 February 2015 109 years, 63 days Fort Doge Fort Doge
6 Bert Adams 4 February 1880 31 March 1989 109 years, 56 days Osceola Osceola
7 Joe Steier 23 July 1895 25 August 2004 109 years, 33 days Kansas Independence
8 Percy Morehouse 13 January 1909 15 December 2017 108 years, 336 days Bennezette Township Hampton
9 William Rexroat 17 August 1898 10 July 2007 108 years, 327 days Kentucky Webster City
10 Martin Johnson 16 December 1894 16 August 2003 108 years, 243 days Essex Shenandoah
11 Robert Hansen 9 June 1908 12 January 2017 108 years, 217 days Goldfield Eagle Grove
12 Paul Flora 20 December 1893 18 July 2002 108 years, 210 days Greene Greene
13 Cornelius “Cornie” Bode 24 December 1889 21 July 1998 108 years, 209 days South Dakota Osage
14 Haktor Larwick 30 November 1890 20 May 1999 108 years, 171 days NorwayNOR Radcliffe
15 Arthur Grewe 20 August 1908 27 January 2017 108 years, 160 days Illinois Bellevue
16 Alfred Puls 2 March 1883 11 April 1991 108 years, 40 days Dubuque Dubuque
17 Oscar Carson 7 November 1883 12 December 1991 108 years, 35 days Clarke County Woodburn
18 Loren Greiner 9 March 1908 2 April 2016 108 years, 24 days Woolstock Emmetsburg
19 Charles Mannhardt 1 December 1873 21 December 1981 108 years, 20 days Germanville Fairfield
20 Paul Hassman 23 January 1914 10 February 2022 108 years, 18 days New Hartford New Hampton
21 Charles Eberly 28 January 1871 6 February 1979 108 years, 9 days North Liberty Sioux City
22 Wayland Newell 15 September 1846 17 September 1954 108 years, 2 days New York Des Moines
23 Orville Ehwegen 21 August 1917 Living 107 years, 304 days Sac City Sac City
24 Leland Jones 10 August 1914 27 May 2022 107 years, 290 days Missouri Story City
25 Amos Wagner 19 November 1893 7 July 2001 107 years, 230 days Dayton Township Eagle Grove
26 Lawrence Vogel 28 January 1913 29 June 2020 107 years, 153 days Montana Lamoni
27 Walter Bader 1 March 1918 Living 107 years, 112 days Des Moines Des Moines
28 Eldred Gerhold 15 March 1918 Living 107 years, 98 days Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids
29 Sylvester Carolan 20 June 1909 23 August 2016 107 years, 64 days Canoe Decorah
30 James Frazier 18 October 1851 8 October 1958 106 Years 355 Days Wisconsin Bedford
31 Seraph Bruchhausen 24 September 1907 14 August 2014 106 years 324 days CanadaCAN Bancroft
32 Luther Goldberg 29 August 1902 16 July 2009 106 years, 321 days Nebraska Shenandoah
33 Harold Rieger 14 October 1905 23 August 2012 106 years, 314 days Illinois West Des Moines
34 Wilford Bozarth 11 February 1858 13 December 1964 106 years, 306 days West Liberty Cedar Falls
35 Thomas Amlie 2 April 1864 10 January 1971 106 years, 283 days Ridgeway Pocahontas
36 Karl Baessler 16 April 1887 3 January 1994 106 Years, 246 Days Humboldt Livermore
37 Glen Yarger 14 March 1911 10 November 2017 106 years, 241 days Boone Boone
38 Robert Hendershott 7 August 1898 23 March 2005 106 years, 228 days Missouri Des Moines
39 Benjamin Pippert 12 November 1892 19 June 1999 106 years, 219 days New York Dysart
40 Louis Frederick 1 October 1910 6 May 2017 106 years 217 days Wisconson Des Moines
41 Henry Brede 29 May 1889 19 December 1995 106 years, 204 days Wisconsin Belmond
42 Wilbur Hof 31 May 1916 15 December 2022 106 years 198 days Minnesota Sioux City
43 Henry Wildasin 20 October 1855 28 April 1962 106 years, 190 days Wilton Wilton
44 Floyd Teske 10 July 1906 31 December 2012 106 years 174 days Pleasant Township Marshalltown
45 George Hendricks 19 December 1876 10 June 1983 106 years, 173 days Benton County Van Buren County
46 John Schlesser 24 October 1880 28 March 1987 106 years, 155 days Elgin Township Le Mars
47 Donald Whitcomb 10 July 1909 12 December 2015 106 years 155 days Osage Osage
48 Robert Prosser 3 March 1914 28 July 2020 106 years 147 days Oklahoma Conrad
49 Donald Allen 2 March 1908 12 July 2014 106 years 132 days Council Bluffs Council Bluffs
50 Harry Boysen 19 March 1898 25 July 2004 106 years, 128 days Andover Clinton

Men who were born in Iowa who moved[]

City of
Rank Name Birth Death Age birth death
1 Earl Brush 17 July 1893 10 January 2005 111 years, 177 days Iowa Township California
2 Charles Shebanek 9 September 1883 27 August 1994 110 years, 352 days Unknown California
3 Emanuel Hubbell 9 February 1903 11 April 2012 109 years, 62 days Lake Charles Florida
4 Edmund Burke 13 February 1878 3 August 1986 108 years, 171 days Sigourney California
5 Ervin Wendt 6 May 1916 Living 109 years, 46 days Atlantic City California
6 Otto Schmidt 28 July 1893 7 December 2001 108 years, 132 days Alta Vista Washington
7 Charles Haxton 19 July 1907 29 September 2015 108 years, 72 days Earlham Oregon
8 Henry Haes 14 April 1882 29 May 1990 108 years, 45 days Unknown Oregon
9 Earl Schelm 20 January 1912 19 February 2020 108 years, 30 days Ute Oklahoma
10 Jay Beemer 10 November 1889 2 August 1997 107 Years 265 Days Holt Colorado
11 Joseph “Colonel Joe” Montgomery 24 August 1876 26 February 1984 107 years, 186 days Wayne County Montana
12 David Davis 9 September 1878 6 February 1986 107 years, 153 days Keosauqu Kansas
13 Clarence Pollock 10 March 1914 30 July 2021 107 years, 142 days Tingley Kansas
14 Charlie Otteson 12 January 1898 26 April 2005 107 years, 104 days Clay Township Minnesota
15 James Emery 30 August 1858 30 October 1965 107 years, 61 days Stacyville Kansas
16 Gerald "Brick" Duncan 24 April 1904 2 May 2011 107 years, 8 days Springville South Dakota
17 Elmer Johnson 9 July 1867 28 June 1974 106 years, 354 days Cass County Michigan
18 Garner Elliott 28 October 1892 20 September 1999 106 years, 327 days Troy Mills Montana
19 Henry Rohlfsen 5 June 1883 23 April 1990 106 years, 322 days Marcus Minnesota
20 Isaac Enderson 10 April 1906 15 January 2013 106 years, 280 days Stanhope Minnesota
21 Floyd Case 1 January 1881 26 September 1987 106 years, 268 days Unknown California
22 Austin Welker 14 December 1882 3 September 1989 106 years, 263 days Le Grand Washington
23 Lynn Zenner 20 February 1899 29 September 2005 106 years, 221 days Glidden Township South Dakota
24 Nathan Sanders 28 June 1870 14 December 1976 106 years, 169 days Grinnell California
25 John VanderBilt 30 July 1911 3 January 2018 106 years 157 days Rock Valley California
26 John Banker 14 December 1864 19 March 1971 106 years, 125 days Clinton Missouri
27 Earl Mahoney 31 August 1907 24 August 2013 105 years 358 days Aurelia Minnesota
28 Elvin Brady Staman 17 January 1895 13 November 2000 105 years, 301 days Delmar Nebraska
29 Elling Eugene Ramsey 11 May 1902 6 February 2008 105 years, 271 days Decorah Township California
30 Eugene Sims 17 September 1858 10 June 1964 105 years, 267 days Jackson County South Dakota
31 William Ernster 20 March 1883 22 November 1988 105 years, 247 days Coggon Arizona
32 Roy Kline 10 September 1914 11 May 2020 105 years 244 days Sioux City Arizona
33 James Carpenter 27 February 1874 9 October 1979 105 years, 224 days Arlington CanadaCAN British Columbia
34 William A. Brown 10 July 1908 10 January 2014 105 years 184 days Centerville Illinois
35 Roy Sparrow 15 September 1882 4 March 1988 105 years, 171 days West Point Illinois
36 Russell Stemm 20 November 1907 20 January 2013 105 years 61 days Adair county Minnesota
37 Archbishop Edward Howard 5 November 1877 2 January 1983 105 years, 58 days Cresco Oregon
38 Oscar Case 24 July 1872 7 September 1977 105 years, 45 days Modale Missouri
39 Roy Luiken 17 February 1906 26 March 2011 105 years 37 days Steamboat Rock Arkansas
40 Charles Haines 19 June 1877 21 July 1982 105 years, 32 days Grinnell Colorado
41 George Eldridge 30 June 1917 15 July 2022 105 years 15 days Traer Idaho
42 William Moore 24 July 1869 30 July 1974 105 years, 6 days Guthrie Center Washington



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