The cause of death of Ms Hoffner's death had yet to be determined. Read more at straitstimes.com.
, all while exhibiting an air of blase disregard for the attention the feat brought her, died in her sleep overnight Sunday into Monday at her home in Chicago.
That interest was prompted by her unusual endeavour: Parachuting off a plane at such an advanced age on Oct 1, not to prove some existential point about seizing every thrill, but simply because she wanted to. As she told it, there was no hubris in Ms Hoffner before she boarded the small plane that she would later drop from while strapped to an instructor.
During her interviews, she asked reporters about their lives and appeared uninterested in talking about her upbringing in Chicago in the early 20th century, after World War I had ended and as an influenza pandemic was raging. Among her friends, Ms Hoffner was known for her favourite saying, a twist on a Bible verse: “I go by ‘Love your neighbour as yourself,’” she said. “So I love all my neighbours. Of course, I don’t like them all.”