--- ---  # The 114-Year-Old Who Challenged Facebook's Age Limits Has Died by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Dec 23, 2014 10:12 PM UTC  At her home in Pottsdam, Minn., Anna Stoehr plays Scrabble with her son Harlan, 83, who is changing the hoses on her washer At her home in Pottsdam, Minn., Anna Stoehr plays Scrabble with her son Harlan, 83, who is changing the hoses on her washerRichard Tsong-Taatarii—AP by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Dec 23, 2014 10:12 PM UTC The 114-year-old woman who gained notoriety for challenging Facebook’s age limitations [died](http://www.kare11.com/story/news/local/land-of-10000-stories/2014/10/09/anna-stoehr-114-plainview-verizon/17011467/) in Minnesota on Sunday. Anna Stoehr died in her sleep following several days of hospice care, her son, Harlan, told the Associated Press. According to the Gerontology Research Group, Stroehr was Minnesota’s oldest and the country’s seventh-oldest verified resident. She garnered attention nationwide this year after a local news outlet reported her attempt to join Facebook was slighted by the fact that she couldn’t put down her real age. Unable to list her birth year of 1900 since it was in the triple digits, Stoehr put down 99 but penned a letter to Facebook that outlined the dilemma. “I’m still here,” she wrote. In response, her son said, Facebook sent Stoehr 114 flowers on her birthday. \[[_AP_](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ba03cc4f5d214b959e53d14c8fe0fcfd/114-year-old-woman-who-challenged-facebook-age-policy-dies)\] Anna Stoehr, 114-Year-Old Who Challenged Facebook's Age Limit, Dies ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3646122/woman-who-challenged-facebook-age-limit-dies/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3646122/woman-who-challenged-facebook-age-limit-dies/"},"headline":"The 114-Year-Old Who Challenged Facebook's Age Limits Has Died","datePublished":"2014-12-23T22:12:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:31.900Z","description":"\"I'm still here,\" Anna Stoehr told Facebook when she tried to join","url":"https://time.com/3646122/woman-who-challenged-facebook-age-limit-dies/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Tech","Internet","viral","obituary"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33671b3c18d11ac4/69877726428a9ee754cc6492/obit-stoehr_stam.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33671b3c18d11ac4/69877726428a9ee754cc6492/obit-stoehr_stam.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Obit-Stoehr","caption":"Obit-Stoehr","creditText":"Richard Tsong-Taatarii—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3646122/woman-who-challenged-facebook-age-limit-dies/","name":"The 114-Year-Old Who Challenged Facebook's Age Limits Has Died"}}]}] ```