World's oldest woman dies at 115

The world's oldest woman has died at the age of 115 in a Montreal retirement home.



Julie Winnefred Bertrand was born 16 September 1891 in the Quebec mill town of Coaticook near the US border.

She was officially proclaimed the world's oldest woman, and the second oldest person, after the death of American Elizabeth Bolden in December.

She passed away quietly in her sleep in the retirement home where she had lived for the last 35 years, her nephew said.

"She just stopped breathing," Andre Bertrand, Ms Bertrand's 73-year-old nephew, told the Montreal Gazette.

"That's a nice way to go."