Bernice Emerson World's 5th oldest person RIP

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.