Oldest American dies at age 113
The oldest American person has died at her Massachusetts home at age 113, ABC News reports http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/oldest-american-goldie-michelson-dies-home-age-113-40450151.
According to the source, Goldie Michelson was a month short of her 114th birthday.
Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group senior consultant Robert Young says Michelson died Friday. He says she'd been “very frail and confined to bed” and hadn't been seen in public for a long time.
Michelson was born in Elizabethgrad, Russia, in 1902 and moved to the United States when she was a child. She lived in Worcester (WUS'-tur), 50 miles west of Boston.