Lelia LaRue shows her father, George Francis a copy of the morning newspaper with President-elect Barack Obama on the front page, at the Sacramento, Calif. nursing home where Francis lived.
Lelia LaRue shows her father, George Francis a copy of the morning newspaper with President-elect Barack Obama on the front page, at the Sacramento, Calif. nursing home where Francis lived. Francis, the nation’s oldest man who lived through both world wars, man’s first walk on the moon and got to vote for the first Black president, has died. He was 112. With Francis’ death, self-taught Alabama artist Frank Calloway, also 112, according to Alabama officials, is now the oldest.
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