Ethel Caterham, a 115-year-old women, became the world’s oldest living person after the previous record holder passed on Wednesday. Caterham claims her trick to long life, in her case, is not to argue. “Never arguing with anyone, I listen and I do what I like,” Caterham said from her nursing home in Surrey. Born on Aug. 21, 1909, in the town of Shipton Bellinger in south England, five years before the beginning of WW1.
Travel has always been a passion of hers, and in 1927, at the ripe age of 18, Caterham journeyed to India to work for as a nanny for the British family. Caterman met her husband, Norman, in 1931, and had two daughters who were raised in the U.K. The title of the oldest person ever is held by a French woman Jeanne Calment, whom lived to over 122 years, according to Guinness World Records.
