Flora Van Artsdale

Flora Van Artsdale (née Diener) (9 January 1886 – 12 August 1997) was an American supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). She was one of the oldest known person in the state of California at the time of her death.

Biography
Flora Van Artsdale was born Flora Diener on 9 January 1886 in Chicago, Illinois, USA as the only child of parents JH and Bonnie Diener. In 1907, aged 21, she married Howard Van Artsdale and had a son, Harold (born 27 December 1909) with him. The family lived in Ohio and Florida before moving to Chula Vista, California, in 1949.

Howard passed away in 1983 after 76 years of marriage, leaving Flora a widow. After her husband's death, she moved to Pacific Grove, California. Van Artsdale had a lifelong interest in the arts, spending a lot of her early adulthood in the Art Institute of Chicago. At the age of 103, she commented on how it had been a century since she had last sat of Santa Claus' lap. In 1994, aged 108, she moved to Sonora, California.

Flora Van Artsdale passed away on 12 August 1997 in Sonora, California, USA, at the age of 111 years, 215 days. She was survived by her son Harold, a granddaughter and a great-granddaughter.