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| − | Mila Mangold (1907- ) is a supercentenarian claimant from California. |
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| + | |Mila Mangold |
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| + | |image = Mila_Mangold_112.JPG |caption = Mangold (left) on her 112th birthday |
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| + | |sex = Female |
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| + | |nationality = American |
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| + | |birthyr = 1907 |birthplace = Nebraska, USA |
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| + | -->'''Mila Mangold''' (born 14 November 1907) is an American [[supercentenarian]] whose age is currently unvalidated by the [[Gerontology Research Group]] (GRG). She may be one of the oldest living people in the U.S. state of California. |
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| + | Mangold was born on 14 November 1907 in Nebraska, United States. She remembers the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic. She also has memories of soldiers returning from World War I. She met her husband, Walter S. Mangold, in Southern California. He worked in public health and she had a job as a secretary in a health department in Los Angeles, where she lived during the Great Depression. |
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| + | During the 1940s, the couple moved to Berkeley, California, where Walter became a professor at UC Berkeley. He helped to found the field of environmental health. They had one son together, Donald. |
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| + | Mangold continued to drive until the age of 95. Up until her centenarian years, she would collect oranges from her tree to make marmalade for her neighbours. During her supercentenarian years, she has been wheelchair-bound. |
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| + | Mangold’s grandmother lived to be 95, and her sister to almost 101. She currently lives in an assisted living facility in El Cerrito, California, United States, at the age of {{AgeYD|1907|11|14}}. |
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| + | ==Gallery== |
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| + | Mila_Mangold_2010.JPG|Mangold in 2010 |
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| + | Mila_Mangold_2010_2.JPG|Mangold in 2010 |
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| + | Mila_Mangold_2016.JPG|Mangold in August 2016 with son Donald |
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| + | Mila_Mangold_centenarian.JPG|Mangold in her centenarian years |
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| + | Mila_Mangold_112_2.JPG|Mangold at 112 |
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| + | </gallery> |
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| + | ==References== |
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| + | *[https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/05/14/something-to-celebrate-a-berkeley-neighbor-turns-112-and-a-half Something to celebrate: A Berkeley neighbor turns 112 — and a half] Berkeleyside, 14 May 2020 |
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| + | [[Category:California supercentenarians]] |
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Revision as of 15:54, 18 May 2020
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 Mangold (left) on her 112th birthday | |
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Mila Mangold (born 14 November 1907) is an American supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). She may be one of the oldest living people in the U.S. state of California.
Biography
Mangold was born on 14 November 1907 in Nebraska, United States. She remembers the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic. She also has memories of soldiers returning from World War I. She met her husband, Walter S. Mangold, in Southern California. He worked in public health and she had a job as a secretary in a health department in Los Angeles, where she lived during the Great Depression.
During the 1940s, the couple moved to Berkeley, California, where Walter became a professor at UC Berkeley. He helped to found the field of environmental health. They had one son together, Donald.
Mangold continued to drive until the age of 95. Up until her centenarian years, she would collect oranges from her tree to make marmalade for her neighbours. During her supercentenarian years, she has been wheelchair-bound.
Mangold’s grandmother lived to be 95, and her sister to almost 101. She currently lives in an assisted living facility in El Cerrito, California, United States, at the age of 116 years, 156 days.
Gallery
References
- Something to celebrate: A Berkeley neighbor turns 112 — and a half Berkeleyside, 14 May 2020