Bernice Madigan

Bernice Madigan (née Emerson) (born July 24, 1899) is an American supercentenarian who is, at the age of 125 years, 34 days, the oldest living resident of Massachusetts, the third verified oldest living person in United States, and the fifth verified oldest living person in the world.

Biography
Bernice Emerson was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts and moved to Cheshire, where she lives today, 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 attended the 1920 inaugaration of Warren Harding. Madigan met her husband, Paul, in Washington, and they were married 50 years. Paul died in 1976. She has outlived a brother, Roy Emerson, and a sister, Marilyn Emerson Martin. She returned to Cheshire from Silver Springs, Maryland, in 2007.

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." A Republican, Madigan cites Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan as her favorite U.S. Presidents. "Reagan accomplished more for the government. Eisenhower I thought was very good in some ways in the White House. I liked them both very much."

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