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China Daily | Updated: 2009-01-22 07:46
2nd-oldest person dies
Beatrice Farve, considered by Guinness World Records to be the second-oldest person in the world, died on Monday in the US state of Georgia, her daughter said. She was 113.
Farve died in her sleep at the Brunswick home she had maintained since she was 21, daughter Joan Farve said on Tuesday.
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