Edith Renfrow Smith, part of Northwestern’s ‘SuperAgers’ study, dies at 111 – Hartford Courant

Edith Renfrow Smith, the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College in Iowa and a longtime Chicago schoolteacher, remained mentally sharp well past 100, becoming the subject for medical researchers studying what they called “SuperAgers.”

Smith, 111, died of natural causes on Friday at the Breakers assisted living facility, where she had moved in October, said her daughter, Alice Frances Smith.

Edith Renfrow was born in Grinnell, Iowa, on J ...

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