INDIAN WELLS – (INT) - Riverside County’s oldest resident has died.

Clarence Matthews was 111 when he died last weekend at his home in Indian Wells where he’d been under hospice care.

Matthews was born in Oakland in 1906.

Matthews moved to Indian Wells in the 1970s and started a successful construction business in Huntington Beach.

Matthews lived through both world wars and supported his family through the Great Depression.

He was also believed to be the oldest man in the U.S.

Story Date: July 29, 2017