For the record:
1:55 PM, Feb. 16, 2021Spanish supercentenarian Maria Branyas was born in San Francisco in 1907, before moving to Spain in 1915. Edie Ceccarelli is not the oldest living native Californian, as an earlier version of this story stated, but she is believed to be the oldest native Californian still living in California.
There were roughly 2.16 million people living in California in 1908. Only one of them is known to still be here, alive and breathing in the Golden State.
Through 21 presidential administrations, two once-in-a-century pandemics, the fall of foreign empires and the birth of a thousand new ways of life, she has quietly gone about her daily business in Mendocino and Sonoma counties.