Rochelle Pope

Rochelle Pope (née Jackson; born 9 March 1908) is an American supercentenarian who is currently unvalidated.

Biography
Pope was born on 9 March 1908 in Mingo, Sampson County, North Carolina, to Buckner and Mittie Jackson. During the 1920s, she attended Pineland School for Girls, and later earned her education degree from what was then East Carolina Teachers College in Greenville.

Pope worked as a teacher, first in Sampson County, then in Harnett County, where she taught children in grades fourth to seven. She also served as principal during her tenure at Long Branch School. She married Claude E. Pope in the 1930s, and has two living children.

Pope currently lives in Dunn, North Carolina, where she became a supercentenarian in March 2018. She has gone blind and relies on a wheelchair to get around after hip surgery several years ago, but is reportedly in good spirits. She has 11 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.