Second-oldest U.S. resident dies at 113, all you need to know about her revealed

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At the age of 113, Herlda Senhouse, the second-oldest person in the United States, died quietly while sleeping. According to Wellesley Public Information Officer Stephanie Hawkinson, she passed away on Saturday in her Wellesley, Massachusetts, home, where she had lived for the last 40 years.

According to the New York Post, Senhouse continued to be an involved and beloved member of the Wellesley community despite her elderly age.

“She never missed an opportunity to learn more, do more, experience more,” she said.

Senhouse’s long-time friend Hawkinson met her on her 108th birthday and has been celebrating with her every year since.

Senhouse was born in Piedmont, West Virginia, on February 28, 1911, and soon after, she went to Woburn, Massachusetts, to live with her aunt.

She planned to become a nurse in 1931 after graduating high school at the age of 16. But according to the Boston Globe, she was turned down for admittance to a nursing school that had already reached its quota of two black students.

Senhouse worked for a number of families throughout the years before switching to housekeeping after being turned down for admission to nursing school.

Additionally, she established the Boston Clique Club, a social gathering for singers and dancers that generated money to enhance black children’ access to school.

She joined the New England Centenarian Study at the age of 105, which investigates why certain people age more slowly and avoid age-related illnesses.

Hawkinson said Senhouse promised to donate her brain to researchers after she passed away. She said that not having kids was the reason she had lived so long.

She had a large network of friends, relatives, and churchgoers, so she was never alone.

“She was truly an inspiration to so many in our community,” she said.

Both World Wars, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, and two pandemics were among the significant junctures in American history that Senhouse’s remarkable life encompassed.

Only 114-year-old Naomi Whitehead of Greenville, Pennsylvania, was older than her, making her the second-oldest person living in the United States.

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