World's Oldest Person Just Celebrates Her Sweet 116

She was sweet 116 last Saturday. And Jeralean Talley has also been labelled by gerontology experts to be the oldest person in the world, according to usatoday.

What keeps her alive and kicking is her clean eating and healthy living habits, apart from her strong faith in God. "See, if you want to be blessed, walk in God's way," Talley said while addressing the congregation of New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church in Inkster on Sunday. "The way you must live is the way he's going to take you. If you want to do right, he'll lead you to do right. You can't do it by yourself. Nobody, I don't care what color, how old, how young, he's got the power. You don't have none," she added, according to freep.

After she turned 116, she was honoured at church in a service that was attended by one daughter, three grand children, 10 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.

Born in Montrose, Georgia, on May, 1899, Jeralean Talley has been living in Michigan since 1935. Most relatives feel that she remains active and aware of everything around her. She bowled until she was 104 and still likes fishing. Her daughter, Thelma Holloway, says that her mother still has a sharp mind.

Talley topped the charts in April, after Gertrude Weaver died at the age of 116, just five days after 117-year-old Japanese, Misao Okawa, died.

Her husband, Alfred Talley, died in 1988. They had just one daughter, Thelma Holloway, 77, who lives with her mother and helps take care of her.

"It's all in the good Lord's hands," she said. "There's nothing I can do about it."

Talley lived alone until just seven years ago, according to the Detroit Free Press.

After being told that she was the world's oldest person, Talley said, "I ain't got nothing more but to treat the other fellow like you want to be treated. You don't tell a lie on me so I won't tell a lie on you."

As she had been born in 1899, she has lived through the turn of two centuries and 20 different presidents. Barack Obama sent her a special birthday greeting.

"The breadth of your experiences and depth of your wisdom reflect the long path our Nation has traveled since 1899," President Barack Obama wrote in a letter to Talley. "During this time, there have been setbacks and breakthroughs, false starts and improbable victories, and through it all our country's spirit has endured - strengthened and enriched by each generation."