Ben Haymon

Benjamin "Ben" Haymon (born 8 November 1909) is an American supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

Biography
Haymon was born in McKamie, Arkansas, United States, on 8 November 1909. He was born in a farming family, and grew up in McKamie. In 1941, he joined the Army, seven months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. As a cook, he served in Port Moresby, Australia, before a reassignment to New Hebrides (now called Vanuatu), with the 159th Port Company. Haymon said his first humbling experience was seeing the destroyed USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, as well as the other damage done by the Japanese. He received an honorable discharge after the war and got a job in a Garland County lumber factory, where he worked for four decades. Haymon married twice, and had two sons and two daughters, including Jeffery (aged 55 in 2016).

In 1970s, he had a colorectal cancer. He retired in the 1980s only after his son approached a human resources worker at the factory. The factory retired him within a week. Until 2012, he lived independently, and he drove his car until moving into a nursing home at the age of 102. In November 2019, he celebrated his 110th birthday.

Haymon currently lives in Hot Springs, Arkansas, at the age of.