By
The Associated Press
An Iowa woman considered the oldest person in the United States on record died Thursday at the age of 115.
Bessie Laurena Hendricks, a Lake City resident, died at Shady Oaks Care Center, Lampe & Powers Funeral Home said.
Hendricks
had celebrated his 115th birthday this past November 7
.
In 2022, the scientific group Gerontology Research Group, based in Los Angeles, considered her the oldest living person in the country.
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Born in 1907 in Calhoun County, west central Iowa, Hendricks
lived through the sinking of the Titanic, World War I and World War II
, the Great Depression, and the Spanish flu and COVID-19 pandemics.
She was a teacher at a school and the mother of five children, according to the Des Moines Register newspaper.
She is survived by three of them.
A service will be held in his honor at Lampe & Powers Funeral Home on Saturday.
The Gerontology Research Group reported that after her death, a 114-year-old California woman named
Edie Ceccarelli will go on to hold the title of the oldest living person in the United States.
