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World's oldest man dies aged 114

By T.K. Randall
April 16, 2011 · Comment icon 16 comments

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Walter Breuning was born in 1896 and lived through two world wars and more than a century of history.
A railroad man for most of his working life Breuning started work in 1916, bought his first car in 1919 and retired in 1967 before returning to work again as the manager and secretary for the Shriners until the grand old age of 99. In the years before his death Breuning would sit outside the Rainbow Retirement Community in an armchair wearing a suit and tie next to a Guinness World Records certificate proclaiming him the world's oldest man.
Breuning died of natural causes in a Montana hospital, a spokesman of the Rainbow Senior Living retirement home where he lived. Breuning had been in hospital since the beginning of the month with an undisclosed illness.


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Comment icon #7 Posted by Fluffybunny 13 years ago
Yeah! I love hearing my remaining Grandparents speak about things. I also have a diary from my Great Grandma that I've thought about turning into a book or online book because her story was absolutely amazing! Details her migration from Germany to America through Russia during World War I, and settling in North Dakota where all my family from both sides settled. Her story is so detailed, and the verbal imagery is amazing! Wasn't just a diary but, she almost took the view of telling an ongoing story. Speaking of current events, and you know what, this settles it! I'm going to transcribe it to a... [More]
Comment icon #8 Posted by Michelle 13 years ago
It's a shame we don't appreciate the wisdom they can impart on us until we are a little older. My parents were older when they had me and my dad died when I was thirteen. I reconnected with his best friends in my twenties and we have spent a great deal of time together even camping and boating. My husbands uncles and aunts are in the same age group, in their eighties, and we spend at least a couple of weeks a year with them at a cabin in the mountains. The stories are priceless and I tell ya...they were a hoot before they retired and once they did retire it's like their inner child came out. T... [More]
Comment icon #9 Posted by The Black Ghost 13 years ago
RIP Beaten by a woman.
Comment icon #10 Posted by Makazradon 13 years ago
Agreed RIP Walter. And not just outliving all the people but, he witnessed the downfall of the human race. Growing up in the late 1800's to early 1900's, he was born in a time of human morality and honesty. Families were still real families, schools actually taught students, and by the 1960's he witnessed the dissolution of honesty, family values, morals and all the things that made human's great! How he didn't suffer from depression seeing just how far we've fallen and how disgusting we are now as a whole... Would have been awesome to talk to him though, and heard his stories. Typical nostalg... [More]
Comment icon #11 Posted by Still Waters 13 years ago
Typical nostalgic mythology. Studies have shown that, as a society, we are more polite, civilized and especially clean than in ages past. The only reason it seems bad is because people born in these eras aren't used to it, and they just want the world to stay it was in their time. There is more gender equality, more racial equality, and the pre-war world wasn't all sunshine and puppies. In fact, the holocaust springs to mind... not to mention South African apartheid which started before your supposed golden age of humanity. What about all the technology they didn't have in those days? the thin... [More]
Comment icon #12 Posted by aquatus1 13 years ago
It is sad that one outlives ones friends and family...but at what point does one stop making friends? And did his family line just die out, or something? I fully intend to live as long as I am capable of, making friends the entire way there till the day comes when I have to strap on my black running sneakers for my last sprint from Death herself (I'm sure she'll appreciate the challenge. Probably no one tries to run away from her). I also intend to stay a part of my family with all the tenacity of Grampa Simpson. I cannot imagine that I would not feel the same joy at seeing my great-grandchild... [More]
Comment icon #13 Posted by ColoradoParanormal 13 years ago
I had a grandmother that came from Moosejaw, Saskatchewan back at the turn of the last century, and did so via connestoga wagon, she had some amazing stories about life of that time. To see what people with through(and without) during that period of history just amazes me. I wonder if all the electronics in the world were to ever fail due to a huge sun flare and we had to go back to pre-electric technology if we could be so resolute... Yeah, what was their everyday life, to us seems so barbaric and just outrageous. If the scenario like you said happened, I believe their would be a mass exodus ... [More]
Comment icon #14 Posted by UFO_Monster 13 years ago
Alas, we all have an end. Imagine the stories this guy must have had.
Comment icon #15 Posted by Oen Anderson 13 years ago
Walt told me his secret to long life was working two or three jobs at a time. I work two jobs and I told Walt it may not make me live as long as him but it sure feels like it!
Comment icon #16 Posted by Realm 13 years ago
His son told him last week, if he didn't stop drinkin, it was gonna kill him, and sure enough...
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