World's oldest person dies in Montreal

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World's oldest person dies in Montreal

Last Updated: Friday, January 19, 2007 | 9:55 AM ET

CBC News

A Quebec woman who was considered to be the world's oldest living person died Thursday at the age of 115.

Julie Winnefred Bertrand died in her sleep at her Montreal nursing home, said her nephew, André Bertrand.

"She just stopped breathing, that's a nice way to go," he told the Montreal Gazette.

Bertrand was born on Sept. 16, 1891 in Coaticook, a town in Quebec's Eastern Townships.

The eldest of six children and the daughter of a harness maker, she lived in the town most of her life, spending much of her time as a clothes buyer and saleswoman in the department store F.X. Lajoie.

She never married, but had several suitors.

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Her nieces and nephews said she loved clothes and loved to travel. They said she was tough, feisty and self-sufficient, but kind. When her parents aged, she took care of them and invited them to live with her in her apartment, the Gazette reported Friday.

When her parents died, she moved to Montreal.

For the past 35 years, she's lived in a nursing home on Gouin Boulevard East.

She earned the distinction as the oldest living person when 116-year-old Elizabeth Bolden of Tennessee died on Dec. 11, 2006.

Bertrand never left the sixth floor of her nursing home, where she lived, in the last two years.

Unexpectedly, on Wednesday, she asked to be pushed through the nursing home in her wheelchair so she could visit the dining room, the chapel and the front lobby.

A few hours later, she died. She will be buried in Coaticook.

Edited January 19, 2007 by Guest

[StoneMtn]

[color:purple]OMG! I didn't even know she was sick.

[Chewie]

i hope i die before i get old...