The world's oldest person, a French nun, dies at 118

The world's oldest person, a French nun, dies at 118

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Category : Obituaries Published on: January 21 2023

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French nun Sister André, the world’s oldest known person, died at the age of 118 in the southern city of Toulon.
Sister Andre was the world's oldest living person according to the Gerontology Research Group's (GRG) World Supercentenarian Rankings List.
Lucile Randon, who took the name of Sister Andre when she joined a Catholic charitable order in 1944, was born on 11 February 1904.
Before becoming a catholic nun, she used to take care of children during World War II and later spent 28 years caring for orphans and elderly people at a hospital.
Born in 1907 in west-central Iowa’s Calhoun County, Hendricks was alive to witness news of the sinking of the Titanic, World War I and II, the Great Depression and both the Spanish flu and Covid-19 pandemics.
She became the world's oldest person alive after Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman, died at the age of 119 on April 19, 2022.

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