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ane Gilsenan, one of the world's oldest people, died yesterday in Woodrow.

Staten Island, NY - New York City’s oldest resident, Staten Island supercentenarian Jane “Jenny” E. Gilsenan, died yesterday in the Presentation Convent Mother House in Woodrow. She was 111.

Gilsenan was one of the oldest people in the world.

“I’m lucky to live as long as I have so far,” the super-centenarian told the Post in February from her home in a Staten Island convent. “I had nothing to do with it. It was wished on me.”

Gilsenan never married and is survived by many nieces and nephews, and grandnieces and -nephews.

Gilsenan’s death comes a day after the death of the nation’s oldest person, Mary Josephine Ray, 114, who died in her sleep Sunday. Just a few hours later, Daisey Bailey, who was 113, died in Detroit, as the US’s second oldest person.

Read more at Staten Island Advance 

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