Edith Renfrow Smith grew up in the 1910s hearing her grandparents’ stories of surviving slavery, including a grandfather who ...

A judge will decide if a man convicted of killing a former Lakeland city commissioner and her husband will receive the death ...

More than five years after the brutal murders of Edie Yates Henderson and David Henderson in their Lakeland home, Marcelle ...

Last year, for Black History Month, NPR's Scott Simon spoke with Edith Renfrow Smith of Chicago, who has died at 111 years ...

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Edie Ceccarelli, born before World War I, and a proud resident of her small hometown in Mendocino County, was the oldest living person in America and the second oldest on Earth. She was celebrated two ...

Edith Ceccarelli, for more than a year the oldest living American and for far longer the pride of Willits, died Thursday in her sleep. Her gentle passing came not quite three weeks after her hometown ...

LeRoy Edie Memorial services for LeRoy “Roy” Edie of Grass Valley will be conducted at 3 p.m. Tuesday, January 4, at the Nevada City Chapel of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary. Mr. Edie died Tuesday, Dec.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Edith “Edie” Ceccarelli, who recently ...

(KTXL) — Edith “Edie” Ceccarelli, who recently celebrated her 116th birthday and was known as the oldest living American, has died. Ceccarelli died on Feb. 22 — 17 days after her 116th birthday, ...