Flossie Page

Flossie Elizabeth Page (née Bishop; 12 June 1893 – 22 February 2006) was an American supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group.

Biography
Page was born on 12 June 1893, on her parents’ homestead near Haven, Kansas. As a young woman, she taught at a one-room school about 80 miles west of Haven. After the United States entered World War I in 1917, she went to Washington, DC, where she worked as a stenographer in the War Risk and Insurance Department. After the war, she worked in the Treasury Department before returning to Kansas to work for the Internal Revenue Service.

Page lived by herself until she was 108, a year after she had surgery to replace a hip joint broken after she fell while cleaning windows. She died of pneumonia in Rosalia, Kansas, on 22 February 2006 at the age of 112 years, 255 days.