| Peg Griffin | |
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| Birth: | 25 May 1904 New Zealand |
| Death: | 6 October 2014 Kapiti, Wellington, New Zealand |
| Age: | 110 years, 134 days |
| Country: |  NZL
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| Validated | |
Eleanor "Peg" Griffin (25 May 1904 – 6 October 2014) was a New Zealandian supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). She was the oldest known person in New Zealand when she died.
Biography[]
Peg Griffin was born on 25 May 1904 in New Zealand. She had a long-lived family: her mother lived to 90, her maternal grandmother to 91, her maternal great-grandmother to 89, her paternal grandmother lived to 90 and her great-grandmother to 70.[1] Her sister, Betty Fleming (28 September 1909 – 6 February 2017) lived to age 107 years, 131 days.[2] Peg and Betty were the oldest living siblings in New Zealand until her death. She became the oldest person in New Zealand on 24 October 2013, then aged 109, following the death of 110-year-old Maudie Wilson.
Peg Griffin died on 6 October 2014 in Kapiti, Wellington, New Zealand, at the age of 110 years, 134 days.[3][4] She was succeeded as New Zealand's oldest person by 107-year-old Olive Oldfield.
References[]
- 2020 validations Gerontology Research Group
| New Zealand's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • E) |
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Lavinia Baskerville • Helen Dixon • Mary Luplau • Flora Barton • Alexander Hughes • Agnes Wilson • Lillian Blyth • Ethel Pearson • Mary Cartwright • Caroline Turner-Williams • Parewahawaha Ranginui Leonard • Florence Sedcole • Edith Robison • Jessie Little • Mary Bromley • Lillian Hickmott • Arthur Bates • Ethel Keen • Jean Tillie • William Swensson • Charles Campbell • Mary Doyle • William Buttler Hayes • Bertha Cole • Laura White • Ethel Booth • Mabel Wachner • Florence Finch • Irene Morgan • Ruby Billings • Inez Newton • Doris Mackintosh • Lena Ray • Maudie Wilson • Peg Griffin • Olive Oldfield • Madeline Anderson • Linda Wiggins • Mabel Jenkins • Lola de la Haye • Moy Kim Ng • Nina Brown • Ronald Hermanns • Joan Brennan • Aileen Kars |