Oldest woman in the world - Getrude Baines of Jefferson Park - dies at 115

Gertrude Baines, the world's oldest person, dies at 115.

Baines, whose father was a slave, made the news in November when she cast her vote for Barack Obama.

Gertrude Baines, a Shellman, Ga., native and former maid, died in her sleep at Western Convalescent Hospital, according LA Times reporter Esmeralda Bermudez.

Baines was born April 6, 1894. Baines had outlived every one of her relatives.

Blaines has been the old person in the world since Jan. 2, when 115-year-old Maria de Jesus of Portugal died.

Baines has been at the hospital that since she broke her hip at age 107, the Times says, and says the hospital is in West Adams.

She became a reluctant celebrity.

"Why all these questions?" she snapped back at reporters once. "I want to know."

With her passing, Kama Chinen, a 114-year-old Japanese woman born May 10, 1895, is now the oldest person in the world.

Baines will be buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery.

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