Posted on 14-07-2008
Filed Under (General News) by Xeldec

With her last post about singing “a happy song” in her nursing home, the the world’s oldest blogger, Olive Riley at the age of 108 passed away.

Since she first started blogging February of last year, Olive Riley had posted more than 70 entries on her blog. She had lived through two world wars and had three children. Olive is from Woy Woy, New South Wales, Australia and was born in 1899. According to her great grandson, Darren Stone, “She had people communicating with her from as far away as Russia and America on a continual basis, not just once in a while,” and she enjoyed it. He told the national AAP news agency.

From her website,
R.I.P. OLIVE RILEY
Our dear friend Olive Riley passed away peacefully on Saturday, July 12. She will be mourned by thousands of Internet friends and hundreds of descendants and other relatives.

May you rest in peace!

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Trisha on 14 July, 2008 at 8:57 pm #

I’m sorry to hear that. Surely, she’s a lost. I never heard of any other 100+ something blogger.


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