The wife has a old iPad 1st generation. Selecting the App Store> purchased, it lists all old apps that have been deleted. Is it possible to permanently delete them as I think they’re using up storage.
if you have deleted them from the ipad then they will be deleted. The app store doesn't leave them on your ipad. You can do a factory reset on the ipad to clean it up but if its first gen, it may just have outlived its usefulness.