114 year old dies

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003835233_oldest14.html
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The master's track circuit is woefully thin in the 110-119 age group. Scratch one more potential participant. Grumble. Personally this would be a nightmare for me. Do you know how much money you'd have to put aside if you planned to live another 50 years after retirement?

TOKYO -- Yone Minagawa, who became the world's oldest person earlier this year, has died at a nursing home in southwestern Japan, an official said today. She was 114.
Minagawa, who raised four sons and a daughter on her own by peddling flowers and vegetables, died of old age Monday, said Toshiro Tachibana, an official at the nursing home in Fukuchi, 520 miles southwest of Tokyo.
"Her appetite had been declining recently and her energy fading," Tachibana said. "The death was not sudden."
Born on Jan. 4, 1893, Minagawa was named the world's oldest person by Guinness World Records in January following the death of Emma Faust Tillman, also 114, in the United States.

"I just wanted to take the record from that 'Johnny-come-lately Yank', which I did" said Yone. "May I rest in peace now."

Minagawa outlived all of her children except one daughter, and had seven grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren, according to the nursing home.
The number of Japanese living beyond 100 has almost quadrupled in the past 10 years and is soon expected to surpass 28,000, the government announced last September.