| Ardith Grose | |
 Ardith Grose on her claimed 111th birthday | |
| Unvalidated |
Ardith Grose (born 22 March 1907?) is an American supercentenarian claimant who claims to be the oldest known person living in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Her age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). If her claimed age is validated, she would be the oldest living African-American person.
Biography
Ardith Grose claims birth in Pennsylvania, USA, on 22 March 1907. She was the second of 11 children born to Howard and Lena (Myers) Grose. She never married nor had children, and was still living with her mother in 1940. By 2002, she was living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
By her claimed 106th birthday in 2013, she was living in a nursing home in Norristown, Pennsylvania, where she is described as happy-go-lucky and caring, and enjoys Music, Comedy, and People; she still lives there today at the claimed age of 117 years, 28 days.
References
- Lena T Myers-Grose Ancestry
- Ardith Grose celebrates 106th birthday The Times Herald (dead link)
- Norristown woman turns 111 years old Fox 29, 22 March 2018
- 1,413 Pennsylvania mail-in ballots were by ‘voters’ over 100 years old, some born before civil war The Washington Reformer, 10 November 2020