Viola Roberts Lampkin Brown, one of the oldest people in the world and the oldest person in the state of Virginia died last Saturday after enjoying two cups of ice cream. She was just five months shy of her 111th birthday.
Viola Roberts Lampkin Brown, one of the oldest people in the world and the oldest person in the state of Virginia died last Saturday after enjoying two cups of ice cream. She was just five months shy of her 111th birthday.
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Viola Roberts Lampkin Brown was an infant when the “Titanic” sank into the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912. She was not yet 3 when World War I began. She was still 6 when the Flu pandemic started in February 1918. And by the time she was 7, Brown was working as a domestic and would spend decades living through segregation.