California woman, world’s 2nd-oldest, celebrates her 116th birthday [Video]

Edie Ceccarelli of Willits, California, celebrated her 116th birthday Monday. She was born Feb. 5, 1908. 

Ceccarelli is the second-oldest living person on the planet and the oldest American, according to the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks supercentenarians — people 110 years of age or older. 

Ceccarelli celebrated by watching her neighbors in the small Mendocino County town drive by in a parade. 

She now lives with dementia. But on past birthdays, she told local paper  The Press Democrat that her longevity was from “drinking two fingers of wine a day and minding her own business.”

María Branyas Morera is the oldest living person, according to Guinness World Records. She lives in Spain, and was born in San Francisco on March 4, 1907.

What does it take to make it to supercentenarian or centenarian status? Researchers with Boston University’s New England Centenarian Study, the largest study of centenarians (100-year-olds) and their families in the world, have found our genes play about 70% …