San Jose resident Betty Ann Chandler dies at age 108

Born in 1917 — in a house that her grandfather built in San Jose’s Naglee Park neighborhood — Betty Ann Chandler’s life spanned San Jose’s evolution from a small, agricultural city to the biggest city in the Bay Area and home to tech companies that would have been science fiction in her youth. Chandler, most likely San Jose’s oldest resident, died Jan. 9 at age 108.

“I really cannot think of someone who had had a more positive outlook on life and had been more intimately related to San Jose,” said Lynda Sereno...