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08-13-2008, 12:33 PM
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-sandy-allen-dead-080813-ht,0,1722421.story
A 7-foot-7 Indiana woman considered the world's tallest female died Wednesday at age 53.
Sandy Allen died at the nursing home where she had lived for several years in her central Indiana hometown of Shelbyville, family friend Rita Rose said. Allen had been ill for several months, using a wheelchair because of poor circulation and weak leg muscles, Rose said.
Guinness World Records listed Allen as the world's tallest living woman at the time of her death, spokesman Damian Field said. Some Web sites, however, cite a 7-foot-9 woman from China.
Allen weighed 6-1/2 pounds when she was born in June 1955. By the age of 10 she had grown to be 6-foot-3, and was 7-1 by the time she was 16.
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A 7-foot-7 Indiana woman considered the world's tallest female died Wednesday at age 53.
Sandy Allen died at the nursing home where she had lived for several years in her central Indiana hometown of Shelbyville, family friend Rita Rose said. Allen had been ill for several months, using a wheelchair because of poor circulation and weak leg muscles, Rose said.
Guinness World Records listed Allen as the world's tallest living woman at the time of her death, spokesman Damian Field said. Some Web sites, however, cite a 7-foot-9 woman from China.
Allen weighed 6-1/2 pounds when she was born in June 1955. By the age of 10 she had grown to be 6-foot-3, and was 7-1 by the time she was 16.
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