World’s oldest person, Besse Copper, dies at 116
Posted December 5, 2012 6:56 am.
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A 116-year-old American woman listed by Guinness World Records as the oldest living person anywhere around the globe died on Tuesday in a nursing home in the Georgia soon after having her hair done.
Besse Cooper died peacefully at the Park Place nursing home in Monroe, Georgia, her son Sidney Cooper, said.
He said his mother, who taught school until her first child was born in 1929, had four children. All of them survived her and are still in good health, he said.
Besse Cooper was first certified as the world’s oldest person by Guinness World Records in January 2011.
The title was taken from her for a few months when it was discovered that Brazilian-born Maria Gomes Valentim, a fellow super centenarian, was 48 days older. Guinness gave the title back to Cooper after Gomes Valentim died in June 2011.
