Source: the Guardian
Richard Overton, believed to have been the oldest man in the US, has died in Texas at the age of 112.
Olverton, who was also thought to have been the oldest US veteran of the second world war, had been admitted to hospital with pneumonia but was released on Christmas Eve. He died on Thursday evening, according to a family member.
Overton was in his 30s when he volunteered for the US army and was at Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack in 1941. He once said that one of the secrets to his long life was smoking cigars and drinking whiskey, which he often did on the porch of his Austin home.
His recent birthdays drew national attention, and strangers would stop at his house to meet him. Even well into his 100s, he would drive widows in…
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