Jeralean Talley is set in her ways. It happens after living 113 years.
Every morning, she drinks black coffee with a little sugar. Talley doesn’t eat cheese because she doesn’t like it and lives by the motto: Treat others the way you want to be treated.
“Her mind is good,” said her daughter, Thelma Holloway.
Talley, who was born May 23, 1899, and lives in Inkster, is now the oldest living American — and third-oldest person in the world, according to the Gerontology Research Group, which keeps a list of the world’s oldest people.
“I feel all right,” Talley said Tuesday in the home she’s lived in for decades.
She became the oldest person living in the U.S. when Elsie Thompson of Florida died March 21 and she moved up to the No. 3 spot in the world with the recent death of Maria Redaelli-Granoli of Italy, according to officials with the Gerontology Research Group, who verified her age.
“In this particular case, the 1900 census was the defining factor for identification,” said Robert Young of the research group. “We checked the parents and siblings to make sure it’s the correct person listed in the records.”
When Talley was asked why she thinks she has lived so long, she lifted her arm and pointed to the sky.
“Don’t ask me,” she said. “Ask him.”
What happens next is in God’s hands, she said.
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