NAMIBIA’S oldest person, Anna Visser, died on Thursday in the Sacred Heart Hospice at Mariental.
She was said to be about 126 years old. Her grandchildren at Asab, in the south of Namibia, were yesterday making arrangements for her funeral which is scheduled to take place on Saturday.According to birth records in the possession of the family, granny Visser, also known as Ouma Fransman, was born on Christmas day in 1878 at farm !Khai //Gamites [Kouewater] in the Keetmanshoop district.Three years ago, when she still lived with her grandchildren at Asab, President Sam Nujoma paid a special visit to Visser and donated N$5 000 to the country’s then most senior citizen.According to the Guinness World Records the oldest person, a Japanese man, was around 115 years old.Although Ouma Fransman was born at !Khai //Gamites, she spent her childhood at Keetmanshoop, Sasaos and at Gochas.She was about 15 years old when the war between the Namas and the Germans broke out.Ouma Fransman was captured along with her mother and sister and taken to Keetmanshoop where they were detained in a concentration camp.She will be laid to rest on Saturday along with Adam Isaacks, a son of her grandchild, who died in a car accident.Her grandchildren at Asab, in the south of Namibia, were yesterday making arrangements for her funeral which is scheduled to take place on Saturday. According to birth records in the possession of the family, granny Visser, also known as Ouma Fransman, was born on Christmas day in 1878 at farm !Khai //Gamites [Kouewater] in the Keetmanshoop district. Three years ago, when she still lived with her grandchildren at Asab, President Sam Nujoma paid a special visit to Visser and donated N$5 000 to the country’s then most senior citizen. According to the Guinness World Records the oldest person, a Japanese man, was around 115 years old. Although Ouma Fransman was born at !Khai //Gamites, she spent her childhood at Keetmanshoop, Sasaos and at Gochas. She was about 15 years old when the war between the Namas and the Germans broke out. Ouma Fransman was captured along with her mother and sister and taken to Keetmanshoop where they were detained in a concentration camp. She will be laid to rest on Saturday along with Adam Isaacks, a son of her grandchild, who died in a car accident.
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