112-year-old, oldest living veteran, robbed of savings, identity (TX)

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Brendan Meyer

... Family members of Richard Overton, the 112-year-old World War II veteran who lives in Austin, learned that his personal bank account had been drained on Friday ...

When the weather is nice, Overton sits on his front porch. His friends call it his "stage." He'll hum with the birds, snoop on his neighbors and wave at honking cars. Best of all, it's where he smokes most of his 12 daily cigars, and sometimes drinks his favorite drink, a whiskey and Coke ...

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2018/06/29/112-year-old-austin-resident-oldest-living-veteran-robbed-savings-identity

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1. Overton's personal bank account depleted

By Nancy Flores - American-Statesman Staff

... Volma Overton discovered the issue Thursday and said he was “quite upset” to learn that a thief accessed the supercentenarian’s Social Security number and checking account number. The money, he said, was used to purchase savings bonds with Treasury Direct. Over the past year, there have been seven deductions to the account. “We don’t know who did it,” he said.

The Austin Police Department said Friday that investigators are “working closely with the Overton family,” who have filed a report. Volma Overton hopes the case can be resolved soon and said he has faith the money will be recovered. He did not disclose the amount that had been stolen ...

https://www.mystatesman.com/news/local/oldest-living-wwii-vet-richard-overton-personal-bank-account-depleted/g11SX6z6bG6QMhm2xbnalJ/

[Demovictory9]

5. that would be really sad

[Lee-Lee]

10. I'll almost guarantee it's family or a caregiver

That isn’t a typical identity theft, both in how they did it and in the fact that they did it over time.

That was someone trying to remain undetected.

A typical identity thief gets access to your account and may run a small test, but then wipes out as much as they can as fast as they can.

This slow methodical stuff is how people who have a relationship with the victim and want to remain undetected do it.

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3. Eat Bacon and Chocolate, Smoke, and Drink Booze

Thursday, 07 June 2018
Written by Selwyn Duke

... Macon’s Telegraph writes that “Witherington has previously credited her long life to living well and eating a lot of chocolate. She also loves Whopper Juniors and pizza” ...

America's oldest World War II veteran and the oldest man in America, Richard Overton, has Witherington beat — not just in age but also lifestyle. Overton recently turned 112 and has been smoking since he was 18. “I smoke at least 12 Tampa Sweet cigars a day” (there’s another marketing push), Overton told the Wall Street Journal in 2015.

In addition, he consumes daily “multiple cups of coffee and Dr. Pepper…. He also eats waffles, pancakes, cinnamon rolls, and other sweet foods,” Business Insider related last month. The kicker? “I feel fine every day,” Overton said in early May. “No pain and no aches.” He does say, however, that the key to his longevity is “staying out of trouble” ...

https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/29234-wanna-live-to-100-eat-bacon-and-chocolate-smoke-and-drink-booze

[Demovictory9]

6. good genes

[Liberal In Texas]

7. I think it's all genes.

As I recently found out.

Low cholesterol (actually really great), BP good, not diabetic, fairly active for my age (68 at the time), not overweight.

So I had a some arrhythmia going on. Went to two cardiologists. Told me nothing to worry about.

In May I finally found one who took it seriously. With an angina-gram and a shake of the head form the doc that it was too severe to have a stent,

Long story short. I just had a 5x bypass. (didn't know they went that high!)

I'm fine. Just don't recommend it if you don't have to have it done. But I'm alive and want to start working again.

Cardio doc said it was genetic. Dad died at 47 and my granddad at 68. I just turned 69 so we'll see.

[Demovictory9]

8. dad and granddad didn't have the great care you are getting! Glad they caught it

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4. 'Just keep living'

By Brendan Meyer
The Dallas Morning News (TNS)
June 22, 2018 10:41 AM

... The blinds of his home are drawn. The drizzle from an overnight storm falls onto the trees. “Turn on the lights,” he says to his caregiver, who sat by his side all night waiting for Richard Overton to open his eyes ...

He was born in 1906, the year of the first wireless radio broadcast and a year before Oklahoma statehood. He fought in World War II in a segregated Army unit; afterward, he spent the bulk of his career working at furniture stores, then at the Texas Department of Treasury.

Now he’s the oldest man in America, verified by the Gerontology Research Group — and the oldest veteran. Every day, strangers stop by the house on Richard Overton Avenue to take his picture or shake his hand. He’s even featured on a mural down the street from his home.

Overton lived an entire life of anonymity before acquiring fame. In 2006, at 100, Overton was just a retired man who liked garage sales, yard work and driving his Monte Carlo ...
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/li-life/oldest-living-u-s-man-richard-overton-1.19355048

[pansypoo53219]

9. evil. he needs his butter pecan money.