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'She turned 114 in October of this year and received a huge bouquet of 114 flowers from Facebook,' son says
Anna Stoehr of Plainview, Minnesota - believed to be the world's oldest Facebook user - has died at the age of 114, her family said Tuesday.
"She turned 114 in October of this year and received a huge bouquet of 114 flowers from Facebook after they learned that she was not able to sign up without putting in a fake age of 90 or 95," Harlan Stoehr, her 84-year-old eldest son, told CNN
Stoehr was born in 1900, but Facebook's sign-up page only allows people to put dates of birth going back to 1905.
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg had attempted to reach Stoehr after his company sent an apology about the age restriction, according to her daughter-in-law Marlene Stoehr.
"She was not available when he had his assistant call to get hold of her because of a medical appointment, and then Mark Zuckerberg was out of the country so it never happened," she said. "But it was an exciting time for everyone with all the attention."
Stoehr was also the oldest person in Minnesota.
"She loved gardening and always had huge flower gardens and strawberries," her son said. "She grew all kinds of things, and when an apple tree on her farm blew down, she planted another one. She was 105 years old at the time."
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