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  • World’s oldest known person, a French nun, dies at 118

    01/18/2023 10:43:27 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 24 replies
    Associated Press ^ | January 18, 2023
    A French nun who was believed to be the world’s oldest person but had been reportedly growing weary of the burdens of age has died a few weeks before her 119th birthday, her nursing home in southern France said Wednesday. Lucile Randon, known as Sister André, was born in the town of Ales, southern France, on Feb. 11, 1904, and lived through the two world wars. As a little girl she was astonished by her first contact with electric lighting at school and, more recently, survived COVID-19 without even realizing she’d been infected.Spokesman David Tavella said she died at 2...