HoodaThunk?

An Ecuadorean woman believed to have been the oldest person in the world has died. She was 116. Maria Ester de Capovilla was born in 1889 and has been a widow since 1949. As a history buff, my mind reels when I think of the events this woman lived through. Literally all of the major events of a century, things I learned of in history class or in speaking to my father, she lived as a current event. When she was born, man could still not fly in heavier-than-air aircraft. The telephone was still new technology and not very widespread. “Titanic” was a word that would not enter the common lexicon for two dozen years, yet. There had never been such a thing as a “world war.”

My sympathies to her family and my prayers go to her. May she be in reunion with her husband and her friends, long departed, in that place where no shadows fall.