An Italian woman, adjudged to be the world oldest person, Emma Morano, aged 117, is dead. She died yesterday, Saturday afternoon.
Dr. Carlo Bava told the AP that she died while sitting in a rocking chair in her home, located in the Northern Italy town of Verbania.
“She didn’t suffer. I’m happy she didn’t suffer but passed away that way, tranquilly,” Bava said.
Born on November 29, 1899,Morano’s life spanned three centuries. She was believed to be the last-surviving person born in the 1800s after Susannah Mushatt Jones who was 116, of New York City and died in May 2016.
Morano was the oldest of eight children. Her siblings all preceded her in death, including a sister who lived to be 102.
She worked in a jute factory and at a boarding school kitchen. She retired at 75, more than 40 years ago.
She married Giovanni Martinuzzi in 1926 and in 1937, gave birth to her only child, who died just months later. She separated from Martinuzzi the next year, but never divorced him. [myad]
