JAPAN — Misao Okawa was, at the age of 117 years, 27 days, the world’s oldest living person, holding the title since the death of 116-year-old Japanese man Jiroemon Kimura on 12 June 2013.
WIKI: Okawa was born the fourth daughter of a draper in the Tenma district (present-day Kita-ku) of Osaka.
She now lives at a nursing home in Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Osaka.[6] She married Yukio Okawa in 1919 and had three children (two daughters and one son), of whom her son, Hiroshi, and daughter Shizuyo are still alive.[6] Her husband died on 20 June 1931.
She has four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.[6][8] She was able to walk until she was 110, when she began using a wheelchair to prevent falls. She can, however, propel herself using her wheelchair.
