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TOULON, FRANCE: French nun Lucile Randon, officially recognized as the world’s oldest person, has died aged 118.
She passed away in her sleep on Tuesday at her nursing home in the southern French town of Toulon, spokesperson David Tavella said.
Randon, known as Sister Andrée, was born in southern France on February 11, 1904 – a decade before the first world war started. She grew up in a Protestant family living in the southern town of Ales, France as the only sister of three brothers.
In 2021, she survived a severe spell of Covid-19 which killed 10 other residents in the nursing home where she lived.
Former oldest person was a 119 Y/O woman from Japan
Long considered the oldest European, Randon became the longest-lived person on earth after the death of Japan’s 119-year-old Kane Tanaka last year. Guinness World Records, which officially acknowledged the sister’s status in April 2022, expressed grief over her passing.
Before entering a convent at the age of 40 in 1944, Randon worked as a governor and tutor. She had been in nursing homes since 1979 and in the Toulon home since 2009.
