<p>A 116-year-old woman listed by Guinness World Records as the oldest living person anywhere around the globe died on Tuesday (December 4) in a nursing home in the U.S. state of Georgia soon after having her hair done.</p><br /><p>Besse Cooper’s son, Sidney Cooper, said she died peacefully at the Park Place nursing home in Monroe, Georgia.</p><br /><p>He said his mother, who taught school until her first child was born in 1929, had four children and they are all alive and well. </p><br /><p>Besse Cooper was the first person certified as the world's oldest by Guinness World Records in January 2011.</p><br /><p>The title was taken from her for a few months when it was discovered that Brazilian-born Maria Gomes Valentim was 48 days older. </p><br /><p>Guinness gave the title back to Cooper after Gomes Valentim died in June 2011.</p>
