MARYLAND — Chester Meros, a former shipyard welder and coal miner who was Maryland’s oldest resident, died Thursday at 110 at his Brooklyn Park home, where he lived for 70 years.
He died days shy of his 111th birthday.
“He would have been one hundred and eleven on the fourteenth of July,” said his son Eugene Meros, his caregiver.
“He had a great personality, and he loved people. He loved to sing, and he’d break into Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra songs,” said his daughter, Debbie Zawitoski. “He didn’t stop. He crabbed until he was 89.”
He was classified as a supercentenarian — someone 110 or older — who was the oldest known living man in Maryland. He was the second-oldest known living man in the United States. The Gerontology Research Group validated his age on his 110th birthday on July 14, 2025. The Los Angeles-based global nonprofit researches and validates supercentenarians.
Born in 1915 in Port Carbon, Pennsylvania, he was the son of Anthony and Veronica Meros. A graduate of the local high school, he joined his father in the coal mining industry. He worked as a truck driver, hauling coal from Schuylkill County to New York City.
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