BY HORACE HINES Observer West reporter hinesh@jamaicaobserver.com Thursday, March 19, 2015
DUANVALE, Trelawny -- Viola Moss Brown, whose life spans three centuries, was on Sunday hailed by Queen Elizabeth II for reaching the age of 115, making her Jamaica's confirmed oldest person and the island the smallest nation to produce a person of her age.
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| Viola Moss Brown raises her hands in the air as she acknowledges the accolades heaped on her at her birthday party |
"Mrs Violet Moss Brown, my congratulations to you on achieving the remarkable milestone of 115 birthday and I send you my best wishes," Custos Rotulorum of Trelawny Paul Muschett read from a letter signed by Queen Elizabeth II.
The letter was read during a glitzy bash at the Glistening Waters Restaurant in Falmouth, on Sunday, to mark her birthday.
The milestone makes Brown, who is affectionately called Aunt V, the world's sixth oldest person, a mere two years behind the world's oldest person, Osaka, Japan's Misao Okawa whose birth date is listed at March 5, 1898.
But she may possibly boast a record that those older than her cannot speak of: having the world's oldest living child.
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| Robert Young (right), senior database administrator for the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) presents a plaque to 115-year-old Viola Moss Brown for being the oldest person in Jamaica. (PHOTO: PHILLIP LEMONTE) |
Brown's firstborn Harold Fairweather, who turns 95 in April, is said to be the world's "oldest living child" with a parent alive.
Brown, who live in the house in Duanvale where she was born on March 10, 1900 has been recognised by the US-based Gerontology Research Group (GRG) as Jamaica's oldest person.
Robert Young, the senior data base administrator and the director of the Super Centenarian Department of the GRG, said that the organisation has, since year 2000, been consultants for the Guinness World Records to adjudicate the World's oldest person title and identify other candidates for the title. more
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