There’s still plenty of action to report on the “oldest living American” front. Aurelia (Ratto) Marotta of East Boston, 113, died Saturday in Eastpointe Rehabilitation and Skilled Care Center in Chelsea, the day before she would have become the oldest person in the United States.
“If she had lived just one day longer, she would have become the oldest,” said Dr. L. Stephen Coles, executive director of the Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group.
One day at a time.