Nina Willis

Willis on her 111th birthday in 2020

**Nina Willis** (née **Frazier**; 14 January 1909 – 17 May 2023) was an American supercentenarian who was the oldest known living person in the U.S. state of Georgia at the time of her death. Her age is validated by LongeviQuest (LQ) and the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

## Biography

Nina Willis was born as Nina Frazier in Robinson, near Union Point, Georgia, USA, on 14 January 1909. She was the 13th of 20 children born to John Frazier and Jerridean Gaines.

In 1940, she married Charles Willis. The couple had no children. In 1947, they moved to Atlanta, where she did domestic work and worked at a department store.

Willis's brother, Bethuel Frazier (1902–2011), lived to be 109. As of 2020, her caretaker was her sister, Pecola Kirby, who was in her 90s.

Willis died in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, on 17 May 2023, at the age of 114 years, 123 days.

## Longevity Records

Following the death of 111-year-old Willie Mae Hardy on 11 December 2019, Willis became the oldest known living person in the U.S. state of Georgia.

Following the death of Bessie Hendricks on 3 January 2023, Willis became one of only three people living in the United States that were born in the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, the other two being Edie Ceccarelli and Hazel Plummer. However, Maria Branyas Morera was born in the United States before all three of these supercentenarians, but lives in Spain.

At the time of her death, Willis was the seventh-oldest validated living person in the world, after Maria Branyas Morera, Fusa Tatsumi, Edie Ceccarelli, Tomiko Itooka, Inah Canabarro Lucas, and Hazel Plummer, and was also the third-oldest validated living person living in the United States, after Ceccarelli and Plummer. Following her death, Ushi Makishi became the seventh-oldest validated living person in the world, while Elizabeth Francis became the third-oldest validated living person in the United States.

## Gallery

On her 100th birthday in 2009On her 107th birthday in 2016Aged 107On her 111th birthday in 2020, using a walkerOn her 112th birthday in 2021Aged 113 (almost 114), on 3 January 2023On her 114th birthday in 2023On her 114th birthday in 2023
## References

* Nina Willis LongeviQuest
* GRG World Supercentenarian Rankings List Gerontology Research Group
* Bethuel Frazier Obituary Legacy.com
* Atlanta woman celebrates 107th Birthday Detroit Free Press, 14 January 2016
* Now this is a celebration! My aunt Nina Willis is 109 years blessed today... Beverly Frazier on Facebook, 14 January 2018
* Yesterday, we celebrated my Auntie Nina's 110th birthday... Beverly Frazier on Facebook, 15 January 2019
* Georgia woman celebrating 111th birthday Fox5 Atlanta, 14 January 2020
* Please Family and Friends to Celebrate Nanna Willis 112th Birthday... Cresie Gibbons on Facebook, 14 January 2021
* Please stop what you’re doing and help wish my Great Great Auntie Nina Frazier Willis (my great grandmother’s sister) a HAPPY 113th BIRTHDAY! Yvette Mathis on Facebook, 14 January 2022
* Chronicles of Chance: Singing to his great-great Aunt Nina (113 years old)... Beverly Frazier on Facebook, 24 February 2022
* Celebrating “70” today beginning with some very special people..." Beverly Frazier on Facebook, 22 September 2022
* Georgia woman turns 114 years young Atlanta News First, 13 January 2023
* Heaven gained another Angel yesterday…My 114 year old Aunt Nina went Home to be with the Lord Beverly Frazier on Facebook, 18 May 2023
* Nina Frazier Willis Obituary Legacy.com