Ruth Engstrom

Ruth Engström (September 23, 1902 - December 2, 2003) was a Swedish verified supercentenarian. She was born in Nybro. She owned a store that sold hats and accessories before marrying Folke Engström in the early 1920s. He got a job in a match factory in India, so the couple moved there and lived in Calcutta & Bombay. Altogether, the family stayed there for more than 30 years. They returned to Sweden in the early 1950s. Folke died of lung cancer in 1966. Ruth Engström herself died on December 2, 2013, at the age of 111 years, 70 days.