Mamie Legg, 111, one of Colorado’s oldest residents, has died, according to 9News.
Legg was born Jan. 9, 1894, in Georgia, and moved with her husband and three children to Colorado in April 1921, because of her husband’s tuberculosis. He died the next October, leaving her with sons age 5 years and 14 months, and a daughter, 3.
She had been living at the Christian Living Campus in Denver since she fell in her home on South Pearl Street when she was 102.
Her granddaughter Margaret Legg said she died Tuesday, according to 9News.
Legg once said the secret to living past 100 was, “Work hard, live cleanly, go to church, and treat others how you want to be treated.”
She said she had lived as long as she did by “doing the best I could with what I had at the time.”
She once did housework for 25 cents an hour, and she was a practical nurse for 10 years at Children’s Hospital and at Mount Airy Sanitarium for 18 years, and she did some home nursing after she began receiving Social Security.
When Legg was born, Grover Cleveland was president; Ellis Island had just opened as an immigration depot; and Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope was showing the first motion pictures.
