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Oct 10, 2011 News
Sonny Hendricks, the oldest known man in Guyana died peacefully in bed at his residence in the Moco-Moco community in the Rupununi early yesterday morning.
He was 111-years old.
Reports from the Rupununi stated that Hendricks, popularly known as ‘Uncle Sonny’, succumbed to influenza.
He leaves to mourn his 95-year old wife and four children.
Hendricks’ death comes just a month after his grandson hanged himself in the Bartica Police Station lock-ups.
This newspaper had featured the centenarian two years ago when he had celebrated his 109th birth anniversary.
At the time he was still tending to his two-acre farm, located some 15 miles from Lethem.
There is ample documentation to confirm Hendricks’ age and many of the old residents of the community have attested to the fact that he has been on this earth long before them.
Born December 1900 in Berbice, Hendricks moved with his parents and other siblings to the fertile Region Nine area in his early teens.
In those days there was little farming and Hendricks soon became fascinated with the popular vocation in the area at the time, cattle rearing.
He was a cowhand and since this entailed riding horses, like most other teenagers in the community, he stuck to the task for several years.
Fishing and horses were the life for him, since according to Hendricks, the place was full of thick bushes and the prospect of going into land farming was daunting.
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