Just days after becoming the world’s
oldest documented person, 116-year-
old Gertrude Weaver died on
Monday in Arkansas.

Weaver became the oldest person in
the world after the death of a 117-
year-old Japanese woman last week,
according to records kept by the Los
Angeles-based Gerontology Research
Group. Weaver was born in 1898.

The Williams Funeral Home
confirmed Weaver died just after
10am on Monday at the Silver Oaks
Health and Rehabilitation Centre in
Camden, about 100 miles south-west
of Little Rock.

The mayor of Camden, Marie
Trisollini, chatted with Weaver last
week when the supercentenarian’s
roommate celebrated her 100th
birthday.

“She was a really sweet lady. She was
relatively perky and coherent when I
talked with her before the party,”
Trisollini said. “When you asked for
advice on how to live a long life she
would say: ‘Use a lot of skin
moisturiser, treat everyone nice, love
your neighbour and eat your own
cooking. Don’t eat at fast food
places.’”

The Research Group was able to
verify Weaver’s age using census
records and a marriage certificate
from 1915 that listed her age as 17.
Other records pointed to a possible
April birthday, but since those could
not be confirmed, the group used the
day Weaver had always celebrated
her birthday: 4 July.

Trisollini said the nursing home and
several members of the community
had been making plans for Weaver’s
117th birthday party.

Weaver, who was born in south-west
Arkansas to sharecropper parents,
told nursing home staff last week
that she wanted to invite President
Barack Obama because she had voted
for him twice.

Name: MISAO OKAWA
Country of residence: Japan
Birthday: March 5, 1898

The oldest person in the world hails
from Japan, noted for its abundance
of people who live beyond 100. And
Misao Okawa is the oldest Japanese
person ever. (At 122, Jeanne
Calment of France, who died in
1997, was by far the oldest person
to have ever lived, at least among
those with verified credentials.)
Okawa, who lives in an old people's
community in Osaka, was born when
Queen Victoria was still on the
throne and the Spanish-American
War was raging. She has been a
widow for 84 years, her husband
having died in 1931.

Her secrets to longevity? Good
genes, regular sleep, exercise — she
was doing leg squats at 102 — and
some sushi. "Eat and sleep and you
will live a long time," she told
Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper.

"Mrs Okawa eats three large meals a
day and makes sure that she sleeps
eight hours a night," Tomohito
Okada, the director of the Kurenai
Retirement Home, where she has
lived for the last 18 years, told the
Telegraph. "She insists that her
favorite meal is sushi, particularly
mackerel on vinegar-steamed rice,
and she has it at least once every
month."

Okawa was married in 1919 and had
three children, two of whom are still
living and are in their 90s. She also
has four grandchildren and six great-
grandchildren.

him no too old na

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WOW

Wow!! this is amazing only I pray God grant my enemy to live twice that age