Bertha Fry
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| Born | December 1, 1893 Vevay, Indiana, United States |
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| Died | November 14, 2007 aged 113 years, 348 days  Muncie, Indiana, United States |
| Occupation | teacher |
| Known for | Supercentenarian |
Bertha Fry (December 1, 1893 – November 14, 2007) was an American supercentenarian. She was 113 years old at her death, but less than three weeks from reaching 114, and lived in Muncie, Indiana.
Fry was born in a farm in Vevay, Indiana, while Grover Cleveland was in his second (non-consecutive) term as President. There has been remarkable longevity in her family. Her mother lived to 90, and her father lived to be 95. Her first husband died in the 1930s, and she re-married during the Second World War.[1]
At the time of her death she was the third-oldest living person in the world, although she was only the second-oldest in the state of Indiana. Edna Parker, who resides in Shelbyville, Indiana, was older and, as of August 13, 2007, the oldest living person in the world. At the age of 113, on April 21, 2007, Fry met with Parker, at that time the second-oldest living person in the world, who had just turned 114 the day before. This set the highest combined age of two supercentenarians meeting at 227 years.[2] Fry died at the Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, of pneumonia.[3] She is one of the 70 oldest people to have ever lived.
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