Katherine Gomery

Katherine Anna Gomery (24 February 1905 — 27 December 2015) was an unverified Canadian-American supercentenarian who was the second-to-last known survivor of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.

She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and as a baby moved to San Francisco, California, where she survived the 1906 earthquake. She then moved to Germany, and as a child survived World War I, starvation, and the Spanish Flu.

She married Fred Warias in the 1920s, and had a son, Al. Fred died in a construction accident. She moved back the United States in her 20s, and in the 1930s she married Joseph Gomery and had a second son, Victor. Joseph died in 1963. She worked as a blueprint clerk in Los Angeles and retired in the late 1960s, before moving to Washington in the early 1970s.

She became the penultimate survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake after the death of Ruth Newman on 29 July 2015, although she was not discovered by researchers until after her death. She died on 27 December 2015 at the age of 110 years, 306 days. William Del Monte then became the last survivor of the earthquake until his own death on 11 January 2016.