The world’s oldest person has died. United States citizen Edna Parker died at the age of 115. After being the oldest person alive for more than a year, Mrs. Parker died at a nursing home in Shelbyville, Indiana, her family said.

She has been a widow since 1939 (69 years) and had lived alone at her farmhouse until she reached the age of 100 years. Her death leaves Maria de Jesus of Portugal, born in 1893, as the oldest person on Earth, according to the Gerontology Research Group, which validates claims of extreme old age.

Mrs. Parker died on Wednesday according to a nephew who informed Stephen Coles of the Gerontology Research Group. He said that probably the key factors that led to Mrs. Parker’s long life were the facts that she did not drink alcohol, she did not smoke and she had an active life.

Mrs. Parker was born on April 20, 1893, in Morgan County, Ind. She graduated from Franklin College in 1911. Mrs. Parker had worked as a teacher until 1913, when she married Earl Parker, her childhood sweetheart and next-door neighbor. She moved to his farmhouse where she spent her next 77 years.

Mrs. Parker, a member of the super-centenarians group (you have to be 110 years old to join), was the oldest person in world since the Aug. 14, 2007, when Yone Minagawa of Japan died. She was four months older than Parker.

The second-oldest person in the world is a Los Angeles woman. Gertrude Baines, 114, is the oldest person of African descent in the world. Her parents were slaves.