Subject: 116 years old
That is amazing. Also a little sad. She has outlived her daughters and 2 husbands, plus at least three grandchildren (who died young).
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/0...
When Edith Ceccarelli was born in February 1908, Theodore Roosevelt was president, Oklahoma had just become the nation’s 46th state and women did not yet have the right to vote.
At 116, Ms. Ceccarelli is the oldest known person in the United States and the second oldest on Earth. She has lived through two World Wars, the advent of the Ford Model T — and the two deadliest pandemics in American history.