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Ms. Olive Riley: The World’s Oldest Blogger Dies at 108


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Ms. Olive Riley, the world's oldest blogger, died over the weekend in a nursing home on the central coast of New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 108. Born in Broken Hill in 1899, Olive Riley returned in 2004 for the filming of a documentary about her life.

Since early last year, she had written over 70 entries about her life experiences and posted them to her blog, The Life of Riley. Ms. Olive's blog was was keenly followed by readers from all over the world.

In her final post, which was dated June 26th, an increasingly frail Ms. Olive noted that she couldn’t “shake off that bad cough.” She also wrote, “I read a whole swag of email messages and comments from my internet friends today, and I was so pleased to hear from you. Thank you, one and all.”

This detailed article includes a number of very touching photographs of Ms. Olive, an audio interview with her blogging assistant about Ms. Riley's death, and two videos (one of her 108th birthday celebration, the other is from the documentary about her life).
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