Nola ochs biography of george michael

Nola Ochs (née Hill) (November 22, 1911 – December 9, 2016)^[1] was an American woman, from Jetmore, Kansas, who in 2007, at age 95, graduated from college and was certified by Guinness World Records as the oldest person in the world to become a college graduate, until Shigemi Hirata in 2016.^[2]

Personal life

A native of Jetmore, Kansas, Ochs was born in 1911 and took her first college class from Fort Hays State University in 1930, when the university was called the Kansas State College.^[3][4][5] Nola and her husband Vernon Ochs raised four sons (who have given her 13 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren) on the family farm.^[6][4] She took college courses again part time from Dodge City Community College in Dodge City, Kansas, after her husband of 39 years died in 1972 and eventually came within 30 credits of a bachelor's degree.^[6][3][4][5] In 2006, No