Nancy Mary Sage, baby critically injured in 1906 San Francisco earthquake, dies at 105

[The Straight Story]

Nancy Mary Sage, baby critically injured in 1906 San Francisco earthquake, dies at 105


SAN FRANCISCO, CA - A baby who was so severely injured during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake she was expected to die ended up living until she was 105 years old.

Nancy Mary Sage, one of the quake's last remaining survivors, died Thursday, just three days before the 104th anniversary of the temblor.

Sage died of natural causes at her nursing home in Colorado, her son Darrell Sage said in a phone interview Friday. She had battled Parkinson's disease for years and recently suffered an intestinal virus.

Although she was just 15 months old when the earthquake hit April 18, 1906, Darrell Sage said the quake and its aftermath shaped his mother's life profoundly.

Nancy Sage's mother died just after the earthquake, and her father, who was unable to support the family after he lost everything in the fires that ravaged the city, put Sage and her sister up for adoption.

Sage wasn't expected to survive, so her grandfather and step grandmother took her in. They raised her in logging and mining camps in Idaho, where she cooked and laundered for the men.

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[Rex]

1. Amazing.

RIP.