Gertrude Evelyn Noone (December 30, 1898 - September 10, 2009) was an American supercentenarian and also the oldest American military veteran until he died in September 2009. At death, he is the oldest military veteran in the world, having served in World War II as a clerk at Fort Myer, a military base in Virginia.
Gertrude Noone was born in Ansonia, Connecticut on December 30, 1898. He was the ninth of his ten children.
No one, who never married, worked as an insurance policy officer for The Travelers. He left his job to enlist in 1943 at the Women's Army Corps during World War II when he was 44 years old. When enrolled in the Corps, Noone became the chief clerk of a clinic in Fort Myer, near Washington D.C. He rode in the Corps to the rank of first class sergeant as he left the United States Army in 1949.
He returned to the private sector, where he worked as an administrative assistant at a mental hospital in Stamford, Connecticut, until his retirement in 1962.
The honorific title of the oldest military veteran known to have been handed down to Gertrude Noone on July 25, 2009, following the death of the British WWI Harry Patch.
Gertrude Noone died at a living facility assisted by Carriage Green in Milford, Connecticut, on September 10, 2009, at the age of 110 years. He was buried with full military honor at Mount St. Cemetery. Peter in Derby, Connecticut.
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See also
- Longevity
- Supercentenarian
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References
External links
- Pos Connecticut
- Hartford Courant
- New Haven List
- Sheet Country
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