Jeralean Talley, center, is escorted into New Jerusalem Baptist Church in Inkster, Mich., by Deacon Charles Smith and church charter member Willa Williams during a reception in her honor on May 25, 2014. Mrs. Talley had just turned 115 on May 23.
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Michigan woman now world’s oldest at 115
Detroit Free Press The front door flew open as a reporter approached a brick ranch house in suburban Detroit, Mich., and a voice called out, “C’mon in — I’ve got Time magazine on the phone.” The speaker stood last week over Jeralean Talley, a placid figure dressed in a pale pink nightgown. Mrs. Talley, a bright-eyed elderly woman in spectacles who, despite her profound hearing loss, was fully aware, relatives said, that she’d just been declared by gerontology experts to be the oldest person in the world.
