Myra Nicholson

Myra Leviston Nicholson (14 December 1894 - 20 September 2007) was the oldest living person in Australia and the 11th-oldest validated living person in the world following the death of French doyenne Marie-Simone Capony on 15 September 2007.
Nicholson came from Blackburn, Victoria, but was born at Clarkes Hill, near Ballarat on 14 December 1894. She descended from a family with a history of longevity - many lived well into their 90s, and a distant relative, Vera Labbett, lived to 109.
Nicholson shopped independently until in her 90s and was still enjoying life at age 100. She described her centennial in 1994 as "lovely".
She lived on her own until the age of 102, and became Australia's oldest living person upon the death of 111-year-old Alice Lindsay on 1 July 2004 and became a supercentenarian on 14 December the same year. In July 2006 she was the subject of a controversy in which she had to move out of the closing Blackburn Aged Care Facility and into her family's home.
She died on 20 September 2007 due to a mild case of bronchitis. Shortly before her death, bedridden Nicholson was quoted as saying, "I can't do anything by myself. I get sick of it".<ref name="theage1"/>

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