Following the passing of French nun Sister André earlier this month at the age of 118, Maria Branyas Morera, who was born in the United States, has now been declared the oldest person in the world by Guinness World Records (GWR). Morera was born nearly 116 years ago in San Francisco, United States but she has spent the last 22 years at a nursing facility in Catalonia, Spain. Before the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, the family moved to Barcelona in 1915. According to Guinness, Morera also experienced the Spanish Civil War in 1936, which she claimed left her with 'extremely unpleasant recollections.'