Angelina Sciales (Photos courtesy: Joanne Merola) WESTCHESTER, N.Y. - A 101-year-old New York woman who survived the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and beat cancer has now overcome COVID-19, according to a local report.
Angelina Friedman, née Sciales, was born in 1918 on a ship bringing Italian immigrants to the United States, according to WPIX.
Her mother died during childbirth and she was raised by her two older sisters until her father arrived in the country and they all moved to Brooklyn, according to Joanne Merola, Friedman’s daughter. Related: 95-year-old WWII veteran beats the odds, survives coronavirus: 'Have a positive attitude' “My mother is a survivor,” Merola told WPIX. “She survived miscarriages, internal bleeding and cancer…