CAUSE OF DEATH: Bessie Hendricks passed away in Iowa on Tuesday at 115 years old; She was the oldest living person in America.

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Bessie Hendricks passed away in Iowa on Tuesday at 115 years old. She was the oldest living person in America. RIP. 

The oldest living person in America died Tuesday at age 115.

#BessieHendricks was the oldest living person in the US and fourth in the world, according to Geronotology Research Group before she passed away at Shady Oaks Care Center in Lake City, Iowa, this week.

Hendricks was born in that city on Nov. 7, 1907, and she grew up on a farm. She later went on to raise five children, two of whom she outlived.

The supercentenarian lived through 21 presidents, the Spanish Influenza, the roaring ’20s, two World Wars, the Great Depression, the Vietnam War, Iraq War and Cold War, as well as the coronavirus pandemic.