The Associated Press is reporting that two of the oldest people in the world died on the same day. Mary Josephine Ray, who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, according to the AP, died Sunday at age 114 years, 294 days in Westmoreland, N.H..
Ray died just hours before Daisey Bailey of Detroit, who was 113 years, 342 days, L. Stephen Coles, a director of the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks and studies old people and certifies those 110 or older, called supercentenarians.
"It's very rare that two of our supercentenarians die on the same day," Coles told the Associated Press.
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Ray died just hours before Daisey Bailey of Detroit, who was 113 years, 342 days, L. Stephen Coles, a director of the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks and studies old people and certifies those 110 or older, called supercentenarians.
"It's very rare that two of our supercentenarians die on the same day," Coles told the Associated Press.
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