--- title: Anna Stoehr, 114-Year-Old Who Challenged Facebook's Age Limit, Dies description: "I'm still here," Anna Stoehr told Facebook when she tried to join canonical: https://time.com/3646122/woman-who-challenged-facebook-age-limit-dies/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-23T22:12:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:31.900Z og:title: The 114-Year-Old Who Challenged Facebook's Age Limits Has Died og:description: "I'm still here," Anna Stoehr told Facebook when she tried to join og:url: https://time.com/3646122/woman-who-challenged-facebook-age-limit-dies/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33671b3c18d11ac4/69877726428a9ee754cc6492/obit-stoehr_stam.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3600 og:image:height: 2025 og:image:alt: Obit-Stoehr og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The 114-Year-Old Who Challenged Facebook's Age Limits Has Died twitter:description: "I'm still here," Anna Stoehr told Facebook when she tried to join twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33671b3c18d11ac4/69877726428a9ee754cc6492/obit-stoehr_stam.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The 114-Year-Old Who Challenged Facebook's Age Limits Has Died > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. 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 washer Richard 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. \[[_AP_](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ba03cc4f5d214b959e53d14c8fe0fcfd/114-year-old-woman-who-challenged-facebook-age-policy-dies)\] ```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"}}]}] ```