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Keith McMillan , The Washington Post
Photos By Ricardo Brazziell / Austin American-Statesman, Featured Image
Photos By Ricardo Brazziell / Austin American-Statesman, Featured Image
Overton, who died Thursday in Austin after battling pneumonia, according to the Associated Press, was 112. He was believed to be America’s oldest man, as well as its oldest living World War II veteran.
He’d also spent decades in the furniture business, lived in his East Austin home for more than 70 years and had become something of a celebrity as he passed 108, 109 and later 112. The older he got, the more his charm — and his fondness for cigars and whiskey, his front porch and church — wowed the folks around him.