World's oldest man dies at 112

SPANISH-BORN Salustiano "Shorty" Sanchez, considered the world's oldest man, has died in Grand Island, New York. He was 112. 
 
The M.J. Colucci and Sons funeral home says Sanchez, who was born in El Tejado de Bejar, Salamanca, Spain, died on Friday.

Guinness World Records certified Sanchez, a former coal miner who emigrated to Cuba and later the United States, as the world's oldest man on July 25 following the death on June 12 at the age of 116 of Japan's Jiroemon Kimura.

Japan's Misao Okawa, who is 115, was certified as the world's oldest woman on the same day.
Sanchez, who was born in 1901, emigrated at the age of 17 to Cuba, where he worked in the sugar industry before heading to the United States.

The Spaniard was processed at Ellis Island and ended up in Lynch, Kentucky, where he worked as a coal miner.

Sanchez moved to Niagara Falls, New York, in the early 1930s and married the love of his life, Pearl Chiasera, who died in 1988.

Shorty and Pearl had three children, who gave them seven grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.