Audrey Stubbart

Audrey Stubbart
Audrey and John Stubbart's wedding photo, c. 1911
Born	Audrey Morford (1895-06-09)9 June 1895
Died	13 November 2000(2000-11-13) (aged 105)
Spouse(s)	John Stubbart (m.1911-1965, his death, 5 children)
Children	Enid, Veryl , Donald, Carol, Kenneth.
Relatives	14 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren and 15 great-great-grandchildren

Audrey Stubbart (June 9, 1895–November 13, 2000) was an American centenarian who worked as a proofreader and newspaper columnist for The Independence Examiner until the age of 105. Prior to her death she was the oldest verified newspaper columnist, the oldest known full-time employee, and possibly the oldest user of the Internet.

Stubbart was born Audrey Morford in Newman Grove, Nebraska. She was the second of five siblings, but with the death of her eldest sibling shortly after birth, Audrey became the oldest. She spent her early life in Newman Grove, Nebraska, close to an Indian reservation and could recount early experiences of encountering Sioux Indians in the decades following the Battle of Wounded Knee.

The Morford family moved to Gordon, when Audrey was young. Soon afterwards, her father died at the age of 36, leaving his wife and four children destitute. Following his death, she and her mother moved along with her siblings to her uncle's house nearby and then, on his death, to the house of their grandparents in Malvern, Iowa.

Audrey was married at the age of 15 to a carpenter, John Stubbart, who was five years older than she. Their marriage lasted 54 years. The couple moved to Wyoming where they had their first child in 1912. They built a log house on the prairie there in 1916, where they lived for the next 28 years. They had two daughters: Enid and Carol; as well as three sons: Veryl, Donald and Kenneth. In June 1964, John suffered a heart attack, and his health apparently failed thereafter. He died at 75 in December 1965.

Audrey was highly religious and taught Sunday school for 75 years. A member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, she detested the former practice of polygamy amongst Utah Mormons, which had only officially ended in 1890, and preached against it just as members of her church had done since its foundation in the 1850s.