article_snippet.sent: Last week Gertrude Weaver, who was already the oldest person in America, asked President Barack Obama to attend A 116-year-old Arkansas woman birthday party on the Fourth of July.
article_snippet.sent: Gertrude Weaver passed away from complications due to pneumonia, according to KATV.
article_snippet.sent: Kathy Langley, The Silver Oaks Health and Rehabilitation Center's administrator, said Gertrude Weaver was enjoying the spotlight Gertrude Weaver received in the last week of Gertrude Weaver life, Gertrude Weaver told Reuters.
article_snippet.sent: Weaver, who received a letter from Obama on Gertrude Weaver 116th birthday, said Gertrude Weaver wanted to meet the president at Gertrude Weaver birthday party because Gertrude Weaver voted for the president twice.
article_snippet.sent: While living at Silver Oaks, Gertrude Weaver exercised in Gertrude Weaver wheelchair three times a week and ate three meals a day at the facility's dining room.
article_snippet.sent: Gertrude Weaver was born on July 4, 1898 in Arkansas.
article_snippet.sent: Gertrude Weaver was the daughter of sharecroppers and worked as a domestic helper.
article_snippet.sent: After retiring, Gertrude Weaver lived with Gertrude Weaver granddaughter.
article_snippet.sent: Gertrude Weaver moved to Silver Oaks in 2009 when her granddaughter had health problems, according to Langley, who called her granddaughter an 'absolutely amazing lady'.
article_snippet.sent: Gertrude Weaver's 93-year-old son visited her granddaughter on a regular basis.
highlights_snippet.sent: Gertrude Weaver was born in Arkansas in 1898 and worked as a domestic helper .
  