{"id":884620,"date":"2026-09-08T16:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884620\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:16:16","slug":"lorna-henstridge-australias-oldest-woman-dies-aged-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884620\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorna Henstridge: Australia\u2019s oldest woman dies aged 112"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia is farewelling its oldest\u00a0woman, Lorna Henstridge<\/a>, who has\u00a0died at the remarkable age of 112.<\/p>\n

The South Australian centenarian turned 112 in June, but on Monday her family confirmed her death from a weeks-long battle with pneumonia to The Adelaide Advertiser.<\/p>\n

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Lorna Henstridge, of South Australia, the oldest woman in Australia has died aged 112.\u00a09News<\/p>\n

Born in 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I, Henstridge lived through two world conflicts, two\u00a0global pandemics and 26 Australian\u00a0prime ministers.<\/p>\n

On her 110th birthday in 2024 she told 9News how \u201cvery lucky\u201d she felt to reach the milestone age.<\/p>\n

Lorna put her longevity down to an active life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think perhaps I\u2019ve always been very active… (I) did play sport quite a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her daily routine involved solving a crossword and going for a walk. She also enjoyed three coffee dates a week with her eldest daughter.<\/p>\n

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South Australian woman Lorna Henstridge was born in June 1914 and lived through two world wars and two global pandemics.\u00a0nna\\lslade<\/p>\n

Henstridge also shared what was most important to her.<\/p>\n

“I guess the main thing is to be respectful with other people and try and understand them always and learn a lot from everybody,” she said.<\/p>\n

Lorna spent much of her life in regional South Australia\u00a0and up until the age of 105 she lived in her own home.<\/p>\n

During her final years she lived in an assisted living facility in Bordertown.<\/p>\n

She leaves nine great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia is farewelling its oldest\u00a0woman, Lorna Henstridge, who has\u00a0died at the remarkable age of 112. The South Australian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-884620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}