Bless her soul
By Steve Almasy, CNN
(CNN) — Before women gained the right to vote in 1920, Besse Cooper joined the suffrage movement.
Then 24, the Georgia school teacher registered women to vote and spoke to others about the importance of having a voice in politics.
Cooper voted in every election after the 19th Amendment was passed, save for two.
She died Tuesday, at age 116, only one of eight people recognized by the Guinness World Records to have lived that long.
Her son Sidney said his mother had her hair done Tuesday morning by a stylist at the assisted-living center where she had lived for the past 11 years but began to have trouble breathing.
She died later in her room, peacefully, he said.
When asked for her secret to a long life, Cooper told the Guinness website earlier this year: “I mind my own business. And I don’t eat junk…
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I just saw this in the newspaper 🙂 How cool to get 116 years old :p As long as your health is fine of course 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on my blog 😀
Thanks for sharing this uplifting story.
Just imagine that! 116!!! I would to sit and have tea with her.
She was born before the suffragettes It just boggles my mine what a conversation with her would have been like..
Wow; what an amazing thing…!
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Carol, I thank you so much. I appreciate everyone and all that you share to make us become better people.
Thanks for sharing this story, Barbara. As you wrote, it would have been quite an experience to have had a conversation with her. Jo
Yo firmaría ahora mismo para llegar a esa edad, pero con una salud buena