World’s Oldest Living Person Passes Away At 116
Gertrude Weaver enjoyed a six day reign as the world’s oldest person before passing away at the Silver Oaks Health and Rehabilitation Center in Camden, Arkansas at the age of 116. She was born on the 4th of July, 1898. To put her age into perspective, that was the same year Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud published his seminal book The Interpretation of Dreams.
In 2014, Weaver told the Associated Press her secret to longevity: “Trusting in the Lord, hard work and loving everybody.” She recently added that being kind and eating her own cooking kept her in good health. She is survived by her grandchildren and 93 year old son, Joe.
Her passing makes Jeralean Talley, another American woman, the new oldest living person in the world at the age of 115 years. She was born May 23, 1899, the same year as Ernest Hemingway, E.B White and Duke Ellington.
