 Sarah Knauss
AKA Sarah DeRemer Knauss-Clark
Birthplace: Arles, France
Born: 9/24/1880
Died: 12/30/1999
Age: 119 years 97 days
Cause of death: Natural causes
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Elderly
Nationality: USA
Husband: Abraham Lincoln Knauss (1879-1965) |
Sarah DeRemer Knauss-Clark was born on 9/24/1880 in a small coal
mining town, Hollywood,
Pennsylvania (which no longer exists), and died in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She
married a well-known
Lehigh County Republican leader Abraham Lincoln Knauss (1879-1965) in 1901.
Sarah lived a quiet life
running a home and working in the insurance business.
She was older than the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty, and was almost
a pensioner when
the Second World War began. She moved to a nursing home in Allentown at the age
of 111. She can
often be found watching golf on television or doing needlepoint. Her passions
are milk chocolate
turtles, cashews, and potato chips.
Her daughter, Kathryn Sullivan, who was 96 at the time of Sarah's death, once
explained Knauss'
three-digit age by saying: "She's a very tranquil person and nothing fazes her.
That's why she's
living this long."
In 1995, when asked if she enjoyed her long life, Knauss said matter-of-factly:
"I enjoy it because
I have my health and I can do things." "Sarah was an
elegant lady and worthy of all the honor and adulation she had received," said
Joseph Hess, an
Administrator of the Phoebe-Devitt Homes Foundation facility where Knauss died quietly in her room.
Officials said that, to their knowledge, she had not been ill.
Knauss lived through seven U.S. wars, the sinking of the RMS Titanic and Charles Lindbergh's solo
flight across the Atlantic. She was older than the Brooklyn Bridge and the
Statue of Liberty, and
was already 88 when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in July 1969.
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