An American woman officially recognised as the world’s oldest person has died at the age of 116. Elizabeth “Lizzy” Bolden died at a nursing home in Memphis, Tennessee. Born in 1890, she married at 19 and was widowed in the 1950s. She suffered a stroke in 2004 and spoke little after that.
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An American woman officially recognised as the world’s oldest person has died at the age of 116. Elizabeth “Lizzy” Bolden died at a nursing home in Memphis, Tennessee. Born in 1890, she married at 19 and was widowed in the 1950s. She suffered a stroke in 2004 and spoke little after that.