Tuesday 4 December 2012

'World's oldest' person dies aged 116


The woman who was listed as the world's oldest person has died in a US nursing home, aged 116.

Besse Cooper died peacefully on Tuesday afternoon at Monroe, east of Atlanta, Georgia, according to her son Sidney Cooper.

Cooper said his mother had been ill over the weekend with a stomach virus, then felt better on Monday.
On Tuesday he said she had her hair set and watched a Christmas video, but later had trouble breathing.

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