Augusta Louise Holtz (née Hoppe) (3 August 1871 - 21 October 1986) was the from the 16 February 1985 death of Mathew Beard to her own death on 21 October 1986, aged 115 years 79 days.
She was born in the Prussian Province of Posen of the German Empire, modern-day Poland, in 1871 to Michael Hoppe and Wilhemina Henrietta (Quade) Hoppe.<ref name="GRG" /> According to her granddaughter, she lacked a birth certificate that would authenticate her claim and therefore was not listed by Guinness World Records.<ref nameDies/> However her age was later verified by the Gerontology Research Group in 2012, and she was posthumously recognised as the oldest verified person after the death of Mathew Beard on 16 February 1985.<ref name"grgd" /> She moved to the U.S. at age 2 in 1873. Her father owned a farm near Troy, Illinois. She grew up with three siblings. She married Edward Holtz in 1900, who died in 1923.<ref nameDies/> She had four children. She later moved to St. Louis County, Missouri, where she died at the St. Sophia Geriatric Center in Florissant.<ref nameDies/>
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