Background
Bernice Emerson was born on July 24, 1899 in West Springfield, Massachusetts.
Bernice Emerson was born on July 24, 1899 in West Springfield, Massachusetts.
She graduated from Adams High School in 1918, and thereafter moved to Washington, District of Columbia, where she worked as a secretary for the Veterans Administration, then the Treasury Department.
She is one of 100 centenarians in The Archon Genomics XPRIZE. When she was 6, she moved to Cheshire, where she later died. Eisenhower I thought was very good in some ways in the White House. Paul died in 1976. She returned to Cheshire from Silver Spring, Maryland in 2007.
Madigan did not take any medicine nor a daily vitamin.
Madigan died at the age of 115 years, 163 days in her sleep at 2 a.m. on January 3, 2015. at the time of her death, she was the 21st verified oldest person in recorded history.
