Juhan Kallaste (birth name Johan Kree; 19 December 1891 Paistu Parish, or Paistu Kallaste's age has not been validated by any international body.
At age 12, he went to school in Pirmastu and he studied there for three years. The Lutheran archbishop made him a Deacon. He was a vicar at Paistu, Kõpu, and Viljandi St Paul's congregation and an assistant cleric at Laiuse and Tarvastu congregations.<ref name="Viljandis suri vanim eestlane"/> He buried 5,254 people, the first of them at age 15.<ref name="arhiiv2.postimees.ee"/><ref name="arhiiv.elukiri.ee"/> Kallaste also worked as a joke teller and an actor in the theater Ugala. He was married for some time but had no children. A few years before his death, he remembered his biography in details. He spent his last years in an old people's home in Viljandi.<ref name="Viljandis suri vanim eestlane"/> In his last two weeks, he lay in bed but was not in pain. He had not walked around for a long time but went to the toilet himself some months before his death.<ref name="arhiiv2.postimees.ee"/>
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