Louisiana Hines helped run a restaurant, worked as a riveter during World War II, raised three children and owned a beauty shop.
Her long life had another unique distinction. Before her death on Friday, the Detroit woman was one of the oldest people in the world, writes Anne Zaniewski in the Free Press.
Robert Young, senior database administrator for the California-based Gerontology Research Group and a consultant for Guinness World Records, told the Free Press census records from 1900 say Hines was born in April 1899, which would put her at 113. He said the birth certificate the family has is a delayed birth certificate that was issued in the 1940s when Hines was an adult.
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