Ethel Wood (supercentenarian)

Ethel Wood (16 January 1901 - 19 August 2011) was a Guernsey supercentenarian. At the age of 110, Wood was the ninth-oldest verified person who died in the United Kingdom following the death of 112-year-old Margaret Fish on 12 March 2011. Wood was not born in the United Kingdom, since Guernsey is a crown-dependency, and legally never part of the Kingdom of England or the the UK.
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Biography
Ethel Wood was born in Saint Sampson, Guernsey. She was one of five children born to William and Lily Wood. Wood trained as a teacher in London prior to the German occupation of Guernsey. Like her siblings, she never married or had children.
She moved to Essex in the 1990s to care for her younger sister, Edith. Wood lived in her own home until breaking her leg during a fall a month before her 110th birthday.
Ethel died suddenly on 19 August 2011, aged 110 years, 215 days in England. If she had lived until December of that year, she would have surpassed the only other supercententenarian from Guernsey, Margaret Ann Neve (1792-1903).

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