Woman among world's oldest dies at 112 in Fla.

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Florida's oldest resident, a 112-year-old woman counted among the world's 25 oldest people by a research group, has died.

Onie Ponder of Ocala died Friday morning. Her son, Carswell Ponder, says his mother died after a brief bout with pneumonia.

According to the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group, Onie Ponder had been the oldest person in Florida and one of the 25 oldest people in the world. She was born Sept. 3, 1898.
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