World's oldest man marks 114th birthday in Montana

A Montana resident believed to be the world's oldest man celebrated his 114th birthday Tuesday at a retirement home in Great Falls.

Walter Breuning was born on Sept. 21, 1896, in Melrose, Minn., and moved to Montana in 1918, where he worked as a clerk for the Great Northern Railway for 50 years.

His wife, Agnes, a railroad telegraph operator from Butte, died in 1957. The couple had no children.

Breuning inherited the distinction of being the world's oldest man in July 2009 when Briton Henry Allingham died at age 113. Allingham had joked that the secret to long life was "Cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women — and a good sense of humor," according to Guinness World Records.

Breuning was to give a speech at an invitation-only birthday party at the Rainbow Retirement Community in downtown Great Falls, where he lives, with a guest list that includes Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer and representatives from Guinness World Records.

Breuning has celebrity status at the retirement home, with visitors waiting in line to see him, Ray Milversted, 92, told The Great Falls Tribune.

Tina Bundtrock, executive director of the Rainbow, said the home has adopted a policy of scheduling visits with Breuning by appointment, so he's not taxed by people dropping in to see him.

Gavin Seeberger recalled how his father, former Great Falls banker John Seeberger, tried to persuade Breuning in the mid-1990s to purchase a two-year certificate of deposit instead of a five-year CD. Breuning had come into the bank to take
advantage of a special rate on five-year CDs, and he insisted that he would be there to collect it in person at age 105 when it matured.

And he did, Gavin Seeberger told the Great Falls newspaper.

"That is being sure of one's self," he said.

Allingham had joked that the secret to long life was "Cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women — and a good sense of humor," according to Guinness World Records.

My type of guy.

:toast:

Allingham had joked that the secret to long life was "Cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women — and a good sense of humor," according to Guinness World Records.

My type of guy.

:toast:

I thought RED EYE lived in Oregon?

Oldest man is a tougher title to hold than heavyweight champion. There's always some 113 year Whippersnapper right behind you, ready to take away your title.......

HE MUST HAVE DIED LOL

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-and-sleep-and-you-will-live-a-long-time.html

[h=1]World's oldest person celebrates her 116th birthday: 'Eat and sleep and you will live a long time'[/h][h=2]Misao Okawa, a Japanese woman born in 1898, has told The Telegraph her recipe for longevity: eating lots of sushi and sleeping eight hours a night[/h] Misao Okawa, the world's oldest person, will turn 116 on Wednesday (Getty)



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In the year in which Misao Okawa was born in Osaka, Queen Victoria was still on the British throne, the Spanish American War was raging and Horatio Kitchener triumphed in the Battle of Omdurman.

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[SUP]Already recognised as the oldest person in the world, Mrs Okawa will on March 5 reach the remarkable milestone of 116 - and attributes her longevity to eating well and sleeping at least eight hours every night, with the occasional nap thrown in for good measure. [/SUP]

[SUP]“Eat and sleep and you will live a long time,” she said in a message to The Telegraph. “You have to learn to relax.”[/SUP]

Guess it goes without saying but holy christ she looks old

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[h=1]World's oldest living man's secret? Not having children, he says[/h][h=2]111-year-old Alexander Imich shares tips on longevity[/h] <cite class="byline vcard top-line">By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo News <abbr>13 hours ago</abbr></cite> Yahoo News


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</figure>Alexander Imich, who turned 111 on Feb. 4 and is the world?s oldest validated male supercentenarian, belatedly celebrates his birthday with a chocolate cake, in his Upper West Side apartment in New York, April 30, 2014. Imich, born in Poland in 1903, was a toddler when the Wright brothers invented manned flight. (Damon Winter/The New York Times via Redux)



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“Not like it’s the Nobel Prize," Imich told the New York Times after being pronounced oldest man on earth by the Gerontology Research Group. “I never thought I’d be that old.”
According to the Gerontology group, there are 66 living women older than Imich, including a Japanese woman, Misao Okawa, who is 116.
Imich was born on Feb. 4, 1903, in Poland, and grew up in Czestochowa in southern Poland. He and his second wife, Wela, a painter and psychotherapist, immigrated to Waterbury, Conn., in 1951. Imich moved to New York in 1986 after Wela's death.
In his late 20s, the Times reports, he "grew fascinated with a Polish medium who was known as Matylda S., a doctor’s widow gaining renown for séances that reportedly called up the dead." He became a scholar of the occult, eventually editing an anthology — “Incredible Tales of the Paranormal: Documented Accounts of Poltergeist, Levitations, Phantoms, and Other Phenomena" — that was published in 1995, when Imich was 92.
So what's the supercentenarian's secret? Here's what he told the Times:
• Not having children.
• Not drinking alcohol.
• Quitting smoking.
• Playing multiple sports. “I was a gymnast,” he said. “Good runner, a good springer. Good javelin, and I was a good swimmer.”
• A diet "inspired by Eastern mystics who disdain food," the Times said. (According to Imich's caregivers, he eats matzo balls, gefilte fish, chicken noodle soup, Ritz crackers, scrambled eggs, chocolate and ice cream.)
• "Good genes," Imich said.
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