Texas woman turns 115, making her the oldest living person in the US
article FILE – Elizabeth Francis, 115, of Houston, Texas, is now the oldest living person in the United States and the fourth-oldest documented person living in the world. ( (Credit: Ethel Harrison) A Houston, Texas, woman who turned 115 last month is now the oldest living person in the United States. “She will tell you it’s by the grace of God,” her granddaughter Ethel Harrison, 69, also of Houston, told Fox News Digital. Elizabeth Francis was the second-oldest person in the U.S. until the previous longevity record holder Edie Ceccarelli, 116, of Mendocino County, California, died on Feb. 22. Francis is also the fourth-oldest living person in the world — according to the Gerontology Research Group (GRT), a Los Angeles-based global social science institution of researchers in gerontology, human longevity, public health and demography. “Supercentenarians” are folks who have lived more than 110 years. While there are more than 97,000 people in the United States who are classified as centenarians, there are far fewer supercentenarians, according to data from the World Economic Forum, a nonprofit research institute based in Switzerland. Francis lives at home with her daughter, Dorothy Williams, who is 95. The two have several caregivers, including Harrison. 100-YEAR-OLD OKLAHOMA WOMAN… CONTINUE READING…