A Northern California woman recognized as America's oldest known living person has died, 17 days after celebrating her 116th birthday. Edith Ceccarelli, died in Willits, Calif. on Thursday, just a couple miles from where she was born in 1908.
A Northern California woman recognized as America's oldest known living person has died, 17 days after celebrating her 116th birthday. Edith Ceccarelli, died in Willits, Calif. on Thursday, just a couple miles from where she was born in 1908.
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.
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