Source: _http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071115/LOCAL/711150547/0/RSS_ (http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071115/LOCAL/711150547/0/RSS) > MUNCIE, INDIANA-- Bertha could no longer see or hear well, but "supercentenarian" Bertha Fry remained mentally sharp until the end. Pneumonia was the cause of her death. Fry is survived by her daughter and son, Wayne Gray of Martinsville, Indiana; five grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson. Bertha Fry, 113, was the world's third-oldest documented person. She died Wednesday 14 November 2007 at Ball Memorial Hospital. "I'd say her very good mind," Fry's daughter, Muncie Indiana resident Barbara Money, said when asked what she will remember about her mother. "She knew up until the very end what was going on. She knew her children and was still asking how are the grandchildren. It's remarkable she kept her mind sharp all those years." "People think someone at that age no longer enjoys life, but she did," said Judi Harris, marketing director at Westminster Village retirement community, where Fry had lived since 1979. Highlights of Fry's last year of life included meeting Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn. Hahn performed at Westminster while visiting her grandfather. Fry didn't attend because she couldn't hear. When the staff asked Hahn if she needed anything, she said she would very much like to meet Bertha Fry. The two sat together in the lounge. Fry was born in Switzerland County in 1893 (the same year actress Mae West was born), attended Hanover College, taught in a one-room school house in southern Indiana and lived in Indianapolis before moving to Muncie to be in the same town as her daughter. Fry lived independently until she fell and broke her wrist this past Fourth of July, when she moved to Westminster's health center. Until then, she walked to the dining room three times a day, attended exercise classes and climbed the stairs to the second-story laundry room. She didn't like the elevator. "We were worried about her taking the stairs," Harris recalled. "We really didn't want her to continue doing that." Indiana also claims the world oldest person. Edna Parker , 114, lives in a Shelbyville, Indiana nursing home. Fry and Parker met in April and set a _Guinness World Record_ (http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071115/LOCAL/711150547/0/RSS#) for the highest aggregate age (227 years) of two people in a gathering. ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com