Julie Bertrand, world's oldest woman, dies at 115+

The report quoted her 73-year-old nephew Andre Bertrand as saying that his aunt died in her sleep at the Montreal nursing home she has called home for the past 35 years.

Bertrand, who turned 115 in September, was certified by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest woman when Elizabeth Bolden, 116, of Memphis, Tennessee, died last month.

Born Sept. 16, 1891, in the town of Coaticook, Quebec, Bertrand was the oldest of six children of harness maker Napoleon Bertrand and his wife, Julia Mullins. She never married.

She worked as a buyer for Magasin F. X. Lajoie, a department store in Coaticook, the report said.