Talking to the media, he had said that he didn't like thinking or talking about the war, saying he "forgot all that stuff". "I drink whiskey in my coffee. Sometimes I drink it straight," he had said when he was 107. "I smoke my cigars, blow the smoke out; I don't swallow it." Overton was a longtime resident of Austin, Texas. He lived on a street called Richard Overton Avenue -- named after him. In a statement on Thursday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott called Overton "an American icon and a Texas legend". "With his quick wit and kind spirit he touched the lives of so many, and I am deeply honoured to have known him," Abbott said. "Richard Overton made us proud to be Texans and proud to be Americans." In 2015, Overton was the subject of a short documentary titled "Mr. Overton".
Oldest man in US dies aged 112
Talking to the media, he had said that he didn't like thinking or talking about the war, saying he "forgot all that stuff". "I drink whiskey in my coffee. Sometimes I drink it straight," he had said when he was 107. "I smoke my cigars, blow the smoke out; I don't swallow it." Overton was a longtime resident of Austin, Texas. He lived on a street called Richard Overton Avenue -- named after him. In a statement on Thursday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott called Overton "an American icon and a Texas legend". "With his quick wit and kind spirit he touched the lives of so many, and I am deeply honoured to have known him," Abbott said. "Richard Overton made us proud to be Texans and proud to be Americans." In 2015, Overton was the subject of a short documentary titled "Mr. Overton".
