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Charlotte Benkner (born ''Charlotte Enterlein'' in Leipzig , Germany on November 16 , 1889 - May 14 , 2004 in Youngstown, Ohio ) was the oldest person of verified age in the world from November 2003 , until sufficient documentation was found to validate the age of Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan in March 2004 . The recognition of Maria Capovilla of Ecuador in December 2005 moved Benkner down to third place. On a plus note, Charlotte holds the record for the oldest verified German-born person. She emigrated to the United States in 1896 . She grew up in Peekskill, New York , where her family ran the ''Albert Hotel'', and as a young woman once met Theodore Roosevelt . On her 1908 marriage to Karl Benkner, she moved west, living in Pennsylvania and Ohio before retiring to Arizona . Already a Supercentenarian and the oldest person in Arizona, she returned to Ohio. She became the oldest recognized person in the United States when Elena Slough died in October 2003 . She lived with her sister Tillie, whom she once cared for when their parents were running the hotel, until Tillie died, weeks short of Turning 100 , on January 25 , 2004 . Charlotte survived her sister by only a few months, dying after she was briefly hospitalized. She was buried in Peekskill . EXTERNAL LINKS
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