Today the BBC website reported: 'Miss Jones was engaged during World War One but her fiancé died on active service, said Mr Hughes, Liberal Democrat MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark, who visited her with other friends on Wednesday.
She worked as a seamstress and for the government during and after World War Two, until her retirement about 50 years ago, he said.
Mr Hughes said: "Grace's friends and neighbours and the wider Bermondsey community are very sad at the news of Grace's death. "But we pay tribute to Grace for her wonderful long life, for her commitment to her faith, her family and her community, and we know that a woman of such strong Christian faith faced death with no fear."
Yesterday, at Simon's instigation, I visited Grace in her Camberwell nursing home to read the Scriptures to her and pray with her. Now she is at peace.
And she was the last person in the country, possibly on the planet, born in the 19th century. I find it very frustrating, obituaries of the very old, wishing I could have known more about them before they died, rather than after.
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