The world's oldest person who had been taken cared of by Filipino caregivers passed away peacefully Friday.

Reuters reported that Gertrude Baines died peacefully in her sleep at the Western Convalescent Hospital in Los Angeles.

Filipino caregivers at the hospital had been looking after Baines for a decade.

"She's a very dignified lady," Filipino Emma Camanag, the hospital's administrator told Reuters

Camanag said Baines will greatly be missed by the nursing home staff.

"It has truly been a blessing and an honor for us to take care of her over the last 10 years and we will greatly miss her," she said.

Although she had no living relatives, Camanag said Baines was their in-house celebrity and also popular at the church where she attended Sunday services.

"It's just like we lost a relative," she added.

Born on April 6, 1894 in Shellman, Georgia, Baines became the world's oldest person when 115-year-old Maria de Jesus of Portugal died in January.

Japan's Kama Chien, 114, is now the oldest person in the world.

Baines voted for Barack Obama as president of the United States and made another mark in history as the oldest American voter last November.

“She's very happy voting for as she said a 'colored man'. She said she wouldn't mind to live a hundred years more and to vote again,” Susie Exconde, the hospital’s director of nursing, said in an earlier report by ABS-CBN North America News Bureau.

Aside from Obama, Baines had only voted once previously, for John F. Kennedy, Reuters reported.

Baines, who was born during the administration of Grover Cleveland, married young and later divorced. Her only child, a daughter, was born in 1909 and died of typhoid at the age of 18.

She worked as a maid in Ohio before moving to Los Angeles and lived on her own until she was well over 100.

According to the Times, when Baines was asked by reporters her secret for living a long life, she would reply "Ask God." With Reuters