Viola Jacobi

Viola Jacobi is an American supercentenarian who is currently pending. She was born in a family farm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 25, 1903, as Viola Kirchner. Her parents were Theodore and Kate Kirschner. Theodore lived to be 95. She had one older and one younger sibling.

On June 15, 1926, she married Conrad Jacobi, who worked as an estimator. Viola herself worked as a florist until her retirement in the late 1990s. The couple had four children in total.

In the 1960s, the Jacobis went back to her home town to take care of her father. Conrad passed away in 1989, the cause of death being Alzheimer’s disease. Viola has suffered from both breast-and skin cancer but has managed to overcome them. Viola drove a car until she was 95 years old, when it was stolen along with her handbag.

At age 106, she moved to a nursing home.

As of today, Jacobi is 24 years, 213 days. She is currently the 5th oldest Wisconsin-born person of all time. The record is held by Bertha Harris.