Bob CollinsRichard Overton had a good answer when asked his secret to living to 112.
“Not dying,” he said.
He was this country’s oldest living World War II vet when he died on Thursday.
Oldest WWII vet dies
About the blogger
Bob Collins
bcollins@mpr.org • @newscutBob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.