I salute the late Mr. Breuing. What an amazing life he lived – all 114 years of it!
Walter Breuning, the world’s oldest man and second-oldest person, died Thursday. He was 114.
Breuning was born Sept. 21, 1896, in Melrose, Minn., and spent his early years in De Smet, S.D. That first decade of the 1900s was literally a dark age for his family. They had no electricity or running water. A bath for young Walter would require his mother to fetch water from the well outside and heat it on the coal-burning stove.