Howard V. Ramsey was 108 when he died in February 2007. At the time he was the last WWI Veteran in the state of Oregon. He served as a truck driver- ferrying officers, carrying water to the front line troops in France, and bringing back the bodies of those killed in action.
A little French girl once asked him for a souvenir. He managed to find a penny to give her, and she in return gave him a lock of her hair wrapped up like a little present. He kept her lock of hair until the day he died.
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