The world's oldest known person, Lucile Randon, has died aged 118, her spokesman said on Tuesday.
Sister Andre, née Lucile Randon, prays in a wheelchair, on the eve of her 117th birthday, in a care home in Toulon, southern France, in February 2021. © Nicolas Tucat, AFP.The world’s oldest known person, Lucile Randon, has died aged 118, her spokesman said on Tuesday.
Randon, known as Sister Andre, was born in southern France on February 11, 1904, when World War I was still a decade away.“There is great sadness but… it was her desire to join her beloved brother. For her, it’s a liberation,” Tavella, of the Sainte-Catherine-Laboure nursing home, told AFP.Randon was born in the year New York opened its first subway and when the Tour de France had only been staged once.
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