Jeralean lived through three centuries and she is the world’s oldest woman who died at
age 116.
Her daughter, Thelma Holloway, 77 told the News “She was ready to go
home and rest. … When she left here, she didn’t suffer. She asked the Lord to
take her peacefully and he did.”
Talley, who lived in Inkster, Mich.,
near Detroit, credited her incredible lifespan to God. The
Detroit News reported her saying
earlier this year, “Every day is a gift from above. There is nothing we can do
without God. He made us, and he knew when he wanted to take us.“
Her active life of fishing, baking
walnut pies with nuts from her yard, and gardening began in Montrose, Ga., in
1899. She moved to Michigan with her husband of 52 years, Alfred Talley, in the
1930s.
Jeralean stayed active even into her
100s — bowling until she was 104 and even mowing her own lawn until a few years
ago. Family friend Michael Kinloch told Yahoo Health that on a recent walk with
him, she said, “I don’t feel bad. I don’t feel sick. I feel as good as you do,
and I look as good as you do. I just can’t get around as well as you do.”
As we remember Jeralean Talley and her
life and legacy, we should also remember the motto she lived by, which she
told the Detroit Free Press: "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.”
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