Dorothy Hoffner was a 104-year-old Chicago woman. On 1 October, 2023, she jumped out of a plane from 13,500ft (4,100 metres) at Skydive Chicago in Ottawa, Illinois, 85 miles (140km) south-west of Chicago. It was not her first time jumping from a plane. Four years ago, she tried it for the first time.
“Age is just a number,” Hoffner said after landing. “The whole thing was delightful, couldn’t have been better.”
Hoffner’s close friend Joe Conant said Hoffner was found dead Monday morning by staff at the Brookdale Lake View senior living community. She died in her sleep on the night of 8 October, Sunday.
Conant said Hoffner had amazing energy. “She never seemed to be tired. She just kept going,” he said Tuesday. “She was not someone who would take naps (小睡) in the afternoon. She showed up in all occasions. She was always there, fully present. She kept going, always.”
Conant was working through paperwork to make sure that Guinness World Records certifies Hoffner posthumously (于死后) as the world’s oldest skydiver, but he expects that will take some time. The present record was set in May 2022 by 103-year-old Linnéa Ingegärd Larsson of Sweden. Conant said Hoffner didn’t skydive to break a record. And she had no interest in any publicity or anything. She wasn’t doing it for any other reason than she wanted to go skydiving.
“She was a dear friend who was an inspiration,” Conant said.
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