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DATE: TUESDAY, July 31, 1990                   TAG: 9007310445
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

105-YEAR-OLD VETERAN, AMERICA'S OLDEST, DIES

George Echols, who fought in France during World War I and was the nation's oldest known war veteran, is dead at the age of 105, the Department of Veterans Affairs says.

The department said Echols died last Thursday at the VA Medical Center here.

Echols' passing means that the oldest known American war veteran is now Nathan Cook, 104, who is also the only known living veteran of the Spanish-American War era. 


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