Elizabeth Bolden's Death
Born (Birthday) August 15, 1890
Death Date December 11, 2006
Age of Death 116 years
Cause of Death Stroke
Profession Supercentenarian
The supercentenarian Elizabeth Bolden died at the age of 116. Here is all you want to know, and more!
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Remembered for holding, at the age of 116, the Guinness World Record for oldest person alive, she was also the seventh known person in the history of the world to reach her 116th birthday. She died in 2006, four months after her monumental birthday.
She married Louis Bolden, with whom she subsequently had four daughters and three sons.
She was 116. Her death was reported by Charlotte Pierce, the administrator at the Mid-South Health and Rehabilitation Center, a nursing home where Ms. Bolden had been living. She suffered a stroke in 2004 and spoke little after that, her family said.