Gertrude Weaver, World's Oldest Person, Dies At Age 116....Jamaica now boasts world's 4th oldest person, Viola Moss Brown at 115 y-o

 AP |  By CLAUDIA LAUER Posted: 04/06/2015 5:30 pm EDT

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Just days after becoming the world's oldest documented person, 116-year-old Gertrude Weaver has died in Arkansas.

The Williams Funeral Home confirms that Weaver died Monday at the Silver Oaks Health and Rehabilitation Center in Camden, about 100 miles southwest of Little Rock.

Weaver became the oldest person in the world after the death of a 117-year-old Japanese woman last week, according to records kept by the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group. Weaver was born on July 4, 1898.

Weaver told reporters last week that the key to her longevity was being kind to everyone and eating her own cooking.

Gertrude Weaver, World's Oldest
Person, Dies At Age 116

She also said she hoped President Barack Obama would come to her 117th birthday party in July....Meanwhile DUANVALE, Trelawny -- Viola Moss Brown, whose life spans three centuries, was on Sunday hailed by Queen Elizabeth II for reaching the age of 115, making her Jamaica's confirmed oldest person, and the smallest nation to produce a person of her age.

"Mrs Violet Moss Brown, my congratulations to you on achieving the remarkable milestone of 115 birthday and I send you my best wishes," Custos Rotulorum of Trelawny Paul Muschett read from a letter signed by Queen Elizabeth II.

Viola Moss Brown, 115 y-o  of
Jamaica raises her hands in the
 air as she acknowledges the accolades
heaped on her at her birthday party

The letter was read during a glitzy bash at the Glistening Waters Restaurant in Falmouth, on Sunday, to mark her birthday.

The milestone makes Brown, who is affectionately called Aunt V, the world's sixth oldest person, a mere two years behind the world's oldest person, Osaka, Japan's Misao Okawa whose birth date is listed at March 5, 1898.