Misao Okawa, a Japanese woman considered the world’s oldest person by Guinness World Records, died on Wednesday of heart failure. She was 117.
Okawa celebrated her 117th birthday on March 5 and was well enough to have birthday cake. However, in the past few weeks, she lost her appetite, notes Reuters. Her grandchildren were with her when she died on Wednesday.
“She went so peacefully, as if she had just fallen asleep,” Tomohiro Okada, an official at Okawa’s nursing home, told the Associated Press. “We miss her a lot.”
Okawa was born on March 5, 1898 and earned the title of World’s Oldest Person in 2013. She married her husband, who died in 1931, in 1919 and had two daughters and a son.
Gertrude Weather of the U.S. is now considered the oldest person in the world. She will celebrate her 117th birthday on July 4. There are now just five people born before 1900 still alive.
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