Sister André Death, Obituary – Lucile Randon DC, French nun known as Sister André (Sœur André), the world’s oldest person as of 2023 died at the age of 118, 340 days) on 17 January 2023, in Toulon, France, according to report. She had been the world’s oldest verified alive person when Kane Tanaka died on April 19, 2022. She was the COVID-19 pandemic’s oldest known survivor, having tested positive with SARS-CoV-2 a month before her 117th birthday.
Hubert Falco, the city’s mayor, announced her death on Twitter, writing, “it is with enormous regret and emotion that I learned today of the loss of the world’s oldest person Sister André.” David Tavella, the nun’s spokesman, said she died on Tuesday at 2 a.m. local time and lived near Toulon. “There is immense sadness, but she wanted it to happen; it was her desire to be with her loving brother. “It’s freedom for her,” Tavella explained.
Randon was born in Alès, France, on February 11, 1904, to Paul Randon and Alphonsine Delphine Yéta Soutoul. She had three older brothers and a twin sister named Lydie, who died a year after they were born. When she was twelve years old, Lucile became a governess to three children in Marseille. When she was hired as a nanny and instructor to a renowned family in Versailles in 1922, she took on greater responsibility. Her time at Versailles as a governess and instructor lasted until 1936.
Jeanne Louise Calment, a French supercentenarian and the documented oldest person in the world died at the age of 122, 164 days in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France on August 4, 1997. Calment outlived both her daughter and grandchild, according to census statistics. She was widely claimed to be the oldest living person in January 1988, and she was certified the oldest person to have lived in 1995, at the age of 120.