World's oldest person, Arkansan Gertrude Weaver, dies Posted: Monday, April 6, 2015 3:09 PM EDT Updated: Monday, April 13, 2015 2:53 PM EDT 
 
 Channel 7 News has confirmed that the world's oldest person, 116-year-old Gertrude Weaver from Arkansas, died Monday morning. 
 
 Ms. Weaver died due to complications from pneumonia. She passed away peacefully at 10:12 Monday morning, according to the staff at Silver Oaks Health and Rehabilitation Center in Camden where she was a resident. 
 
 Gertrude Weaver, born in 1898, was already the oldest person in America, but she was pronounced the world's oldest person on April 1 after it was announced that 117-year-old Misao Okawa in Japan had died. 
 
 Ms. Weaver had said she wanted President Barack Obama to attend her 117th birthday party on the Fourth of July. ||||| America 
 
 Gertrude Weaver, World's Oldest Woman, Dies At 116 
 
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 Last week Gertrude Weaver of Arkansas became the world's oldest person. Weaver died Monday at the age of 116. The cause was complications from pneumonia, according to KATV. 
 
 Weaver died at the Silver Oaks Health and Rehabilitation Center in Camden, Ark., where she was a resident, the TV station reported. 
 
 She would have turned 117 on the Fourth of July and said she wanted President Obama to attend her birthday party. 
 
 As Bill reported last week, Weaver became the world's oldest woman upon the death of Japan's Misao Okawa, who died at the age of 117. 
 
 Reuters reports that Weaver, the daughter of sharecroppers, was born in Arkansas near the Texas border and worked as a domestic helper. Last week, upon assuming the title of world's oldest person, she said the secret to her longevity was being kind to everyone and eating her own cooking, the news service added. 
 
 With Weaver's death, the oldest person in the world is Jeralean Talley, who lives in the Detroit area. She was born on May 23, 1899, according to the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks such data. ||||| Gertrude Weaver, who just last week became the world's oldest-known living person, has died at the age of 116 at a senior care facility in Arkansas, officials said on Monday. 
 
 Weaver, who said the key to longevity was to treat people kindly, basked in her brief moment in the global spotlight. She enjoyed being read news articles about being the oldest person on the planet, said Kathy Langley, the administrator of the Silver Oaks Health & Rehabilitation Center in Camden, Arkansas. 
 
 "She certainly enjoyed it,'' Langley said. "We are devastated by her loss.'' 
 
 Weaver was born on July 4, 1898, according to the Gerontology Research Group, which validates ages of the world's longest-living people. 
 
 The daughter of sharecroppers, Weaver was born in Arkansas near the Texas border and worked as a domestic helper. 
 
 The world's oldest known person is now Jeralean Talley of Inskter, Michigan, who was born on May 23, 1899 and will turn 116 next month, according to the group. 
 
 Misao Okawa, a Japanese woman who credited her longevity to "eating delicious things,'' had been the world's oldest living person until her death on April 1 at the age of 117. 
 
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– Gertrude Weaver was the oldest-known living person on Earth for nearly a week, and she got a kick out of it, too, NBC News reports. When 117-year-old Misao Okawa died of heart failure on April 1, Weaver took the top spot at age 116 and basked in the limelight from her Arkansas senior care facility, where she liked reading news articles about herself. She died there peacefully this morning due to complications from pneumonia, KATV reports. "She certainly enjoyed it," says the facility's administrator. "We are devastated by her loss." Weaver was born to a family of sharecroppers in Arkansas, near Texas, on July 4, 1898, and took on work as a domestic aid, Reuters reports. Weaver credited her long life to being kind to people and eating food she cooked herself, says NPR. One of her last wishes was to have President Obama visit the Silver Oaks Health & Rehabilitation Center in Camden, Ark., for her birthday. The new world's-oldest is Jeralean Talley, who turns 116 in May and lives outside Detroit with her daughter. She puts her longevity down to faith: "It's the Lord," she says. "Everything is in his hands." She also bowled until age 104 and says she never drank alcohol or smoked. (Weaver had more advice for living a long life.)