BARBARA DOODSON was at home alone when she fell over and died.
In Manchester, the elderly woman was in the garden area of the care home she was living when she fell down a flight of stairs.
According to Metro, the 103-year-old stumbled down steps and her head injuries ended her life.
The woman was identified as dead later at Stepping Hill Hospital.
Since the incident, the steps have been replaced at ramp, and the death has been treated as accidental.
Doodson's daughter Jennifer Eley said of her mother: "She was a feisty lady, she lived to 103 because she was so feisty. She was widowed for a long time and after my father died she made a new life.
She added: "She did a lot of charity work and gardening and made new friends, she didn’t sit around. She was a very healthy woman. ‘She was very opinionated and liked discussing things with people, she always had something to say. She had a paper delivered every day."
Emma Beaumont, the carer in charge of Doodson explained why the woman had been left on her own for so long: "I know it’s no excuse but I was busy at the time serving supper, I thought she hadn’t heard me."
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