Elizabeth Francis, who was the oldest living person in the United States, has died. She was 115.
Her 69-year-old granddaughter and caregiver, Ethel Harrison, told ABC News on Wednesday that Francis died peacefully on Tuesday night while surrounded by her family.
Speaking to ABC News, Harrison described Francis as “a person who loved people.”
“She loved the Lord. Her faith was extremely strong,” Harrison said. “She was always, you know, jolly, you know, ‘how you doing? You’re doing okay?’ That was just her personality,”
“And she would always say, treat people like you want to be treated. And that was her motto,” she added of her grandmother.
At the time of her death, Francis was the oldest living person in the U.S. and the third-oldest person in the world, according to LongeviQuest, a global database of the world’s oldest individuals. She lived most of her life in Houston, Texas, per a press release from the database.