
The Jamaican, who was born on March 10, 1900, died at the Fairview Medical Centre in Montego Bay, St James at 2:30 p.m. Friday, her son Barry Russell revealed.
She became the world's oldest person on April 15 this year at 117 and 38 days, taking the title from Italian Emma Morano, who was born in 1899.
Violet, who's also known as 'Aunt V' was a mother of six and a great-grandmother several times over.

'Really and truly, when people ask what me eat and drink to live so long, I say to them that I eat everything, except pork and chicken, and I don't drink rum and them things. You know, sometimes I ask myself, 'Am I really 110 years old?' because I don't feel like 110.'
She added her 'faith in serving God, and believing strongly in the teaching of the bible' were also fundamental to a long and healthy life.

Following her death, 117-year-old Nabi Tajima, of Japan, is now the world’s oldest person.
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