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.
Edith Ceccarelli, the oldest person in the U.S. is about to celebrate her 116th birthday. Edith "Edie" Recagno Keenan Ceccarelli lives in northern California, in the small town of Willits and she's the second-oldest person on Earth, according to the Gerontology Research Group. She'll mark another year around the sun on Feb. 5. The town of
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