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World’s Oldest Person Susannah Mushatt Jones Has Sadly Died at Age 116
Miss Susie Susannah Mushatt Jones with her niece Lois Judge,72, as they celebrate her 113th birthday with a party at the Vendalia Senior Center in Brooklyn. Miss Susie was born on July 6, 1899 in Alabama, the third of eleven children. She is the only one still alive. She never had children but has more than 100 nieces and nephews. (Photo By: Debbie Egan-Chin/NY Daily News via Getty Images)
Susannah Mushatt Jones lived a long and fulfilling life!
The world's oldest person sadly died at age 116 on Monday, May 12 at a public senior housing facility in Brooklyn, NYC. She had been ill for more than a week prior to her passing, Robert Young, a senior consultant for the LA-based Gerontology Research Group, told the Associated Press.
Susannah on her 113th birthday.
"Ms. Jones was the very last American from the 1800s," Young said. Susannah was born in 1899, and has been living in the Brooklyn housing facility for the last 30 years.
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Though the former nanny had no kids of her own, she's survived by 100 nieces and nephews. Rest in peace, Susannah.
