 Marie-Louise Meilleur
AKA Marie-Louise Febronie Meilleur
Birthplace: Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada
Born: 8/29/1880
Died: 4/16/1998
Age: 117 years 230 days
Cause of death: Blood clot to the
lungs
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Elderly
Nationality: Canada |
Marie-Louise Meilleur was born in Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada in
8/29/1880 and married her first husband, Etienne Leclerc, there in 1900. After
he and both her parents died in 1911-1912, in 1913 she left two of her four
surviving children behind and moved to the Ontario border. Only once, in 1939,
did she return to the Kamouraska area.
She had six further children by her second husband, Hector Meilleur, who she
married in 1915. After his death in 1972 she lived first with a daughter and
then in a nursing home in Corbeil, Ontario.
Marie-Louise Meilleur made headlines when she tried to
find a wife for her son, who was then 81 years old. Ann Landers' column caller
her "Mother of the Year" for that project.
Marie-Louise Meilleur had 85 grandchildren, 80
great-grandchildren, 57 great-great-grandchildren, and 4 great-great-great
grandchildren. "Hard work could never kill a person," she said.
By the time she died of a blood clot to the lungs in 4/16/1998, one of her sons was also
living in the same nursing home, and her oldest daughter, Gabrielle Vaughan, was
90 years old. Meilleur was said to be a vegetarian.
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