It's Official - Guinness Book of World Records Recognizes Bert Holbook As the Oldest Person with Down Syndrome

In a previous post, I mentioned that Bert Holbrook and his friends were attempting to get him into the Guinness Book of World Record as the oldest living person with Down syndrome.

Well - it's official. At the age of 80, Mr. Holbrook has been recognized as the oldest living person with Down syndrome by the Guinness Book of World Records. Born in 1929, when the life expectancy of children with Down syndrome was 9 years of age and institutions were the norm, Bert thrived. He was raised at home and was an integral part of the Waseca community where he lived with his parents and older sister. He worked in the family grocery and was known as Junior.

While Mr. Holbrook now holds the official Guinness World Record, I suspect that there are many other people out there with Down syndrome in their eighties. Do you know of anyone in their sixties, seventies or eighties with Down syndrome?