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| Birth: | 9 March 1899 Ohio, USA |
| Death: | 5 October 2009 Greenville, Darke County, Ohio, USA |
| Age: | 110 years, 210 days |
| Country: |  USA
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Sylvia Utz (neé Booker; 9 March 1899 – 5 October 2009) was a validated American supercentenarian.
Biography
She was born on 9 March 1899 in Ohio, the daughter to Benjamin Franklin Booker and Clara Belle Newcomer. Utz graduated from grade school, but quit so that she could help her father care of her ailing mother. She drove a car until she was 98 years old. Her mother died when she was 53 of tuberculosis, and her father when he was 79. Her sister, Delcie Kress, lived to be 109 until her death in 1998, and her brothers were both in their 80s when they died.
On 15 June 1918, she married Harvey Utz. The couple had five children. She and husband Harley Sr. were married 83 1/2 years when he died in November 2001 at the age of 103. On their 82nd wedding anniversary in 2000, they received a certificate from Guinness World Records for being the longest married couple.
She died in Ohio on 5 October 2009 at the age of 110 years, 210 days. At the time of her death, she was the oldest living person in Ohio.