| Odile Washington | |
| Unvalidated |
Odile Washington (née Clark; born 24 June 1909) is an American supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).
Biography
Washington was born in Napoleonville, Louisiana, United States, on 24 June 1909. Her parents were Louis Clark Sr. and Florence Miles. She was the oldest child and had at least 11 younger siblings: Mary (died in 2004), Juanita (died in 2018), Willie, Louis, Freddie, Eula, Horace, David, LC, Almatha and Elizabeth. In the 1920s, she married Lonnie Washington, from Donaldsonville, Louisiana, and they owned Starlight Cafe and Hotel in Gert Town (New Orleans). She never had children, but raised her nephew, Willie Clark from the time he was 2 years old in 1939, and his sister, Willie Mae Griffin (deceased as of 2018), who was 7 years old at that time.
Her husband passed away in the 1980s. Washington lived in New Orleans, Louisiana for 80 years before moving to Belle Vie where she has lived since she broke her hip in 2008 and went there for rehab. Her youngest brother, Louis Clark Jr., pastor of St. John Baptist Church in Napoleonville, was still alive in 2018 and attended her 109th birthday party.
Washington currently lives in Belle Vie Living Center in Gretna, Louisiana, United States at the age of 114 years, 299 days.
References
- Mary Clark Augustine' obituary - The Times-Picayune, 13 August 2004
- Gretna's Odile Washington, 107, a role model to community NOLA View, 8 July 2016
- JUANITA C MOORE Williams & Southall Funeral Home
- 'Miss Odile,' matriarch of the Starlight Cafe in Gert Town, turns 109 NOLA View, 6 July 2018
- 110th birthday Facebook, 24 June 2019