Lucy Hamm

Lucy Hamm (born 30 January 1908) is an American supercentenarian who is currently unvalidated.

Biography
Hamm was born on 30 January 1908 in Cairo, Illinois. As a young woman, she worked sewing funeral shrouds for the a mortuary business her sister operated, and also worked in her brother’s mousetrap factory. She married a barber with whom had two children, and moved to St. Louis, Missouri. She claims that he was a mean and an alcoholic, and that he died at a young age, but sources differ on whether she left him or she was widowed.

Hamm worked for many years in a shoe factory in St. Louis, before retiring aged 72. She kept driving until she was 92. She lived in her own apartment in a retirement community for around 15 years, before moving in to an assisted living facility in Chesterfield, St. Louis, in December 2015. As of 2017, she had seven grandchildren, 11 great-grand children, and one great-great-grandson. She became a supercentenarian in January 2018.