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Olga Kerect [Russian: Ольга Керект] (born est. 1890?) is a Russian-American longevity claimant whose age has not been verified.

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Biography[]

Olga Kerect (sometimes "Kepect") was supposedly born in Turma, Russian Empire around the year 1890. Nothing is really known about her early life or family. Nothing is known about her parents or any possible siblings. It is claimed that she married her husband in the 1900s and they moved to the United States in 1912.

After arriving in the United States, they lived in several different places before settling in Harriston, Virginia. They bought a farm in what was at that point the country and had six children (three sons and three daughters). Kerect became a grandmother in 1930 and this was one of the highlights of her life.

Kerect and her husband ran a farm and sold goods while enjoying their large family. In 1950, Kerect's husband died at the age of about 62 and left Kerect to take care of the farm by herself. Eventually all of her children and grandchildren moved elsewhere.

By the 1970s, Kerect's farm was in disrepair. She only sold berries and apples and most of the farmland that was once fields had been replaced by dense forests due to Kerect's isolation and poverty. In 1985, Kerect no longer sold any products and completely retired. She let the farm completely go. Her house began to deteriorate over the years.

Kerect's last living child died around 1980 and by this time she had lost complete contact with all of her family. Any siblings, nieces and nephews all still lived in Russia, all of her children had died and her grandchildren and subsequent descendants all lived in other places far from Kerect.

In 1999 she donated all 75 acres of her land (except for two acres where her house sat and the road from the national highway to her house) to the National Environmental Protection Agency in 1999 in exchange for never again needing to pay property tax on her land until she died.

On 5 August 1988, Kerect was visited by a grandchild for the last time. After this she became almost completely alone. Kerect's house was built in the early 1900s and she tried to maintain it as best she could. By the 1990s, Kerect's house was completely surrounded by dense woods with a very small road leading to it from the national highway. The house began to deteriorate more and more with age. By the 2010s, most of it had collapsed in on itself only leaving a very small space for Kerect to live.

Kerect mostly kept to herself. She would occasionally go to market for goods but very rarely. She only owned a few sets of clothes and an umbrella and a mattress and some blankets to sleep on. Her house deteriorated more and more throughout the years until it became basically a pile of rubble. Due to Kerect's advanced age and long-term self isolation, she basically became an unknown person since basically everyone she knew had died.

By the 2020s most of Kerect's grandchildren had died with very few remaining. She never met or knew any subsequent descendants of her family. None of her living grandchildren know that Kerect is still alive and most of them are very aged themselves.

Kerect would very often wander around the town and surrounding towns by herself throughout the day. She began to develop dementia and would walk around aimlessly. She walked incredibly slowly and often became disoriented. One day when Kerect was wandering, a group of young people driving stopped to help her. She became very disoriented. They took her to their house to help her. She acted very creepy and eventually wandered off into the woods. Kerect gets angry if someone comes around her house. In her dementia state she constantly asks for her grandchild and says it to herself.

Olga Kerect currently lives around Harriston, Virginia at the age of about 134 years.

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