World's oldest living woman dies at age 115
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Friday, January 19, 2007
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The world's oldest known woman, Montrealer Julie Winnefred Bertrand, died on Thursday, passing away peacefully in her sleep.
She earned the distinction as the oldest living woman when 116-year-old Elizabeth Bolden of Tennessee U.S.A. died on Dec. 11, 2006.
Bertrand was born on Sept. 16, 1891 in Coaticook, a town in Quebec's Eastern Townships, and lived there for the majority of her life. She was the oldest of six children, and never married. She moved to Montreal after the death of her parents, and later moved into a nursing home.
She had never left her sixth-floor room in the nursing home for two years, but unexpectedly, she asked to tour the building the day before she died.
Bertrand will be buried in Coaticook.
Sources
- "World's oldest woman dies in Montreal at age 115". CBC News, January 19, 2007
- Reuters "World's oldest woman dies in Canada". Washington Post, January 19, 2007
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