(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A 104-year-old woman from East Lake View is slated to go skydiving next week, making her the oldest person in the world to do it.
Dorothy Hoffner first went skydiving four years ago, an experience she describes as beautiful and peaceful.
“I was only 100 years old then,” she told WBBM Newsradio’s Nancy Harty on Wednesday.
She plans to return to Skydive Chicago in Ottawa on September 7 for another tandem jump with a U.S. Parachute Association-certified instructor.
Skydiving organizations say a person or tandem divers typically fall 120 miles per hour to earth. Hoffner said doesn’t consider herself a daredevil. She grew up in Humboldt Park and now lives alone in an assisted-living facility along the lakefront on the North Side.
Dorothy’s dive, if successful and certified by Guinness, would surpass the achievement of a 103-year-old Swedish woman who jumped last year, organizers say.
Hoffner turns 105 in mid-December, something she doesn’t consider to be a big deal. She said she’s not an excitable kind of person.
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