Dorothy Hoffner passed away in senior community before Guinness Records could certify her as world’s oldest skydiver‘She was not someone who would take naps in the afternoon’, said Joe Conant, Dorothy Hoffner’s close friend. Photograph: Daniel Wilsey/APChicago This article is more than 1 year oldChicago woman who skydived at age 104 has died: ‘She was indefatigable’This article is more than 1 year old

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Hoffner’s close friend Joe Conant said she was found dead Monday morning by staff at the Brookdale Lake View senior living community. Conant said Hoffner apparently died in her sleep on Sunday night.

On 1 October, Hoffner made a tandem skydive that could land her in the record books as the world’s oldest skydiver. She jumped out of a plane from 13,500ft (4,100 metres) at Skydive Chicago in Ottawa, Illinois, 85 miles (140km) south-west of Chicago.

“It was wonderful up there,” Hoffner had said after last week’s jump. “The whole thing was delightful, wonderful, couldn’t have been better.”