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Born July 24, 1899
West Springfield, Massachusetts
Died January 3, 2015
(aged 115 years, 163 days)
Cheshire, Massachusetts
Nationality American
Ethnicity Caucasian
Title Oldest living resident of Massachusetts
Spouse(s) Paul Madigan (1896-1976)
(m. 1925–1976; his death)
Parents Harry and Grace (Bennett) Emerson
Bernice Madigan (July 24, 1899 – January 3, 2015 was an American supercentenarian who was the oldest living resident of Massachusetts, the fourth-oldest living person in the United States,and the world's fifth-oldest living person at the time of her death. She is one of 100 centenarians in The Archon Genomics XPRIZE.
Biography
Bernice Emerson was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts on July 24, 1899. When she was 6, she moved to Cheshire, where she later died. She graduated from Adams High School in 1918, and thereafter moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked as a secretary for the Veterans Administration, then the Treasury Department.
A lifelong Republican, she attended the Inauguration of Warren G. Harding in 1921, and cited Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan as her favorite U.S. Presidents. "Reagan accomplished more for the government. Eisenhower I thought was very good in some ways in the White House. I liked them both very much."Madigan met her husband, Paul, in Washington, and they were married 50 years. Paul died in 1976. She has outlived a brother, Roy Emerson, and a sister, Marilyn Emerson Martin. She returned to Cheshire from Silver Spring, Maryland in 2007.
Madigan did not take any medicine nor a daily vitamin.
West Springfield, Massachusetts
Died January 3, 2015
(aged 115 years, 163 days)
Cheshire, Massachusetts
Nationality American
Ethnicity Caucasian
Title Oldest living resident of Massachusetts
Spouse(s) Paul Madigan (1896-1976)
(m. 1925–1976; his death)
Parents Harry and Grace (Bennett) Emerson
Bernice Madigan (July 24, 1899 – January 3, 2015 was an American supercentenarian who was the oldest living resident of Massachusetts, the fourth-oldest living person in the United States,and the world's fifth-oldest living person at the time of her death. She is one of 100 centenarians in The Archon Genomics XPRIZE.
Biography
Bernice Emerson was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts on July 24, 1899. When she was 6, she moved to Cheshire, where she later died. She graduated from Adams High School in 1918, and thereafter moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked as a secretary for the Veterans Administration, then the Treasury Department.
A lifelong Republican, she attended the Inauguration of Warren G. Harding in 1921, and cited Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan as her favorite U.S. Presidents. "Reagan accomplished more for the government. Eisenhower I thought was very good in some ways in the White House. I liked them both very much."Madigan met her husband, Paul, in Washington, and they were married 50 years. Paul died in 1976. She has outlived a brother, Roy Emerson, and a sister, Marilyn Emerson Martin. She returned to Cheshire from Silver Spring, Maryland in 2007.
Madigan did not take any medicine nor a daily vitamin.
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born in the same year as my dad.
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Someone tell cmat before he puts up round 9
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Call me as thick as a whale omlette but I don't get that.
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on guard Dartanian
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emerson wake embalmer
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Bernice Emerson was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts on July 24, 1899. When she was 6, she moved to Cheshire, where she later died.
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Cut short in his prime RIP
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Crisp77 04 Jan 15 01:18
Someone tell cmat before he puts up round 9 |
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The strange thing about living that long is you might easily outlive your children and even grandchildren.
She had no kids? I wonder what the correlation between people who live very long and not having the stress of children is :) |
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Ovalman. 04 Jan 15 13:42
Cut short in his prime RIP Well I suppose it was a 50-50 poke |
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Crisp77
Someone tell cmat before he puts up round 9 Quality Crisp. Still laughing as I'm typing. |
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2005:i once asked an old cider maker who was sitting at his barn door if he had lived here all his life:
'Lived here all me life- HA HA HA - lived here al me Life - HA HA HA Ha Bless you boy - not at all gawd no i didnt move ere until 1936 ' |
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Does Kenny Mann get into the top 20 now?
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