East Bay woman, celebrated as oldest person in California and the seventh oldest in the world, dies. Mila Mangold was 114 years, 230 days old.
– defined as a person who is 110 years old or older – Mangold was also the second oldest in the country and the seventh oldest person on the planet. KTVU story last December
, the facility’s owner, Meinu Wu, described her most senior resident as a well-liked and "very nice woman" who had lived at the assisted care facility for more than five years. "She's very positive, and she has a strong will to live long. She knows what's happening around her, and she still can read," Wu shared.
GRG director Robert Young said that at the time of her death, Mangold, who was born in Nebraska on Nov. 14, 1907, was just a week younger than the oldest person in the U.S., identified as Bessie Hendricks of Iowa. , offered some insightful perspectives on Mangold's long life. Young noted that the year Mangold was born, Oklahoma became a state.
Mangold met her husband, Walter Mangold, in Southern California, where she worked as a secretary in a health department, according to
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