Thelma Sutcliffe, the oldest living person in the US, has died at age 115, her longtime friend says.
in Los Angeles, a global organization of researchers in the gerontology field, also confirmed Sutcliffe's death.on April 17, 2021, Robert Young, director of the Gerontology Research Group's Supercentenarian Research and Database Division, told NBC News in a phone interview on Friday. As of October, she was the fifth-oldest person in the world, he said.
The supercentenarian had celebrated her 115th birthday at her residence, the Brighton Gardens of Omaha senior living center, last October, the World-Herald reported. In the wake of Sutcliffe's death, Maria Branyas Morera, who was born in California on March 4, 1907, and currently lives in Spain, is now the oldest U.S.-born person in the world. However, Young said:"I'm not completely sure whether she decided to keep her American citizenship or not."Noting that she had survived cancer twice in her life, he said that Sutcliffe never appeared to be"worried about anything.
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