Bernice Madigan

Bernice Madigan is an American supercentenarian who is, at the age of 113 years, the oldest resident of Massachusetts and the 9th oldest living person in the world. She was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts and moved to Cheshire when she was 6. She graduated from Adams High School in 1918, and thereafter moved to Washington, where she worked as a secretary for the Veterans Administration, then the Treasury Department. She and her husband met a few years later in the early 1920s, and they made many friends in the community. The couple never had any children, which Madigan says saved her a lot ofstress in life, potentially contributing to her longevity. Madigan retired in 1942, volunteered with the church and at nursing homes, where she played the piano for residents. After her husband died in 1976, she stayed active with a group of friends near her home in Silver Spring, Maryland.

She lives in Cheshire, Massachusetts. An average breakfast for Madigan comprises a bowl of Wheaties, with banana slices on top and four miniature glazed doughnuts on the side. As pastimes, she enjoys reading and watching television shows such as "The Lawrence Welk Show’’ and “Cops."

It was reported on her 110th birthday that she took no medicine or a daily vitamin.

See also

• [List of living supercentenarians[]]