The 115-year-old from the US state of Massachusetts, who enjoyed playing the piano and reading books, put her longevity down to a glass of wine with every meal and the fact that According to a report in her local newspaper, the Berkshire Eagle she also stressed the she had not had children. importance of positive thinking. "It's your attitude," she said a few years earlier. "If you have a happy attitude and a good life, you're lucky.