116 Years world oldest person dies in New York

World oldest person Susannah Mushatt Jones, has died in New York on Thursday night at the age of 116.
Susannah died at a senior home in Brooklyn and was said to be ill for the past 10 days prior to her death according to a senior consultant for the Gerontology research Group, Robert Young.
Jones was born in 1899 in a small farm town near Montgomery, Alabama. She was one of 11 siblings and attended a special school for young black girls.

Family members have credited her long life to love of family and generosity to others.
Jones entered the Guinness World Records' as the world oldest person when 117-year-old Misao Okawa died in Tokyo last year.

116-year-old Emma Morano, of Italy, just a few months younger than Jones, is now the unofficial world's oldest person said Young.