{"id":841,"date":"2015-04-24T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=841"},"modified":"2025-04-24T18:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:38:06","slug":"oldest-sackett-dies-at-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"Oldest Sackett dies at 108"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"302\" src=\"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ivy-sackett-at-107.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ivy-sackett-at-107.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ivy-sackett-at-107-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ivy-sackett-at-107-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ivy Florence Sackett (1907\u20132015)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sackettfamily.info\/g3\/p3555.htm#i106639\">Ivy Florence Sackett<\/a> has died on 23 April 2015 at the age of 108 years 12 days. She is the oldest recorded Sackett.<br>Ivy was born in Canterbury, Kent, on 11 April 1907, the daughter of Percy Ernest Sackett and Rose Hoare. She was orphaned as a child and, at the age of fourteen, was sent to Canada to go into domestic service. Her resettlement was arranged and paid for by Dr Barnado&#8217;s Homes.<br>She married in Canada in about 1931 William Garnet &#8220;Bill&#8221; Alger. He died aged 91 in 1998.<br>Ivy and Bill had a son, William Beverly &#8220;Bev&#8221; Alger who died in 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivy Florence Sackett has died on 23 April 2015 at the age of 108 years 12 days. She is the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}