World’s Oldest Person Dies At Age of 116
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Elizabeth “Lizzie” Bolden, recognized as the world’s oldest person, died yesterday in a Los Angeles nursing home, the home’s administrator said. She was 116.
Bolden was born August 15, 1890, according to the Gerontology Research Group, a Los Angeles organization that tracks the ages of the world’s oldest people. Guinness World Records recognized Bolden as the oldest person in August after the death of Maria Esther de Capovilla of Ecuador, who also was 116.
Bolden died at the Mid-South Health and Rehabilitation Center, a nursing home where she had been living for several years, the center’s administrator, Charlotte Pierce, said. Bolden had suffered a stroke in 2004, and her family said she spoke little after that and slept much of the time.
