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News Nearby: World's Oldest Woman, Besse Cooper, Dies at 116

Family of the Monroe, Ga. woman confirmed her passing Tuesday.

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The family of the world's oldest woman, Besse Cooper of Monroe, confirmed that she died Tuesday, Monroe Patch reports.

A bridge on New Hope Church Road in the community of Between was dedicated to her in the summer.

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Cooper moved to the community in 1917 at the end of World War I. She taught at a little two-room school just up the road from the bridge that now bears her name.

See the full story on Monroe Patch.

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