Oldest US person dies at 115

The oldest living person in America died Tuesday at age 115.

Report informs via The New York Post that Bessie Hendricks was the oldest living person in the US and fourth in the world, according to Geronotology Research Group before she passed away at Shady Oaks Care Center in Lake City, Iowa, this week.

Hendricks was born in that city on November 7, 1907, and she grew up on a farm. She later went on to raise five children, two of whom she outlived.

She is now outlived by three of her children, nine grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren, and 42 great-great-grandchildren.

Hendricks’ death now leaves California resident Edie Ceccarelli — who turns 115 on February 5 — as the oldest living person in America.