Tuesday, December 18, 2012

The Oldest Woman in the World has Died

Photo: Dina Manfredini (The Irish Examiner)

DES MOINES - Dina Manfredini died at the age of 115 in Iowa, the United States, after two months was named the world's oldest woman. Title of the world's oldest woman Bessie Cooper achieved Manfredini finished his last breath.

Manfredini living in a nursing home Bishop Drumm in Johnston. According to his granddaughter, Lori Logli, Manfredini had fever before dying.

Logli tell also that his grandmother was a very reliable in cooking and often make Italian bread every Sunday for breakfast family. Besides bread, Manfredini also able to make pasta with his own hands.

"He (Manfredini) is very active in his life. He was also a man who loves to give," said Logli, as quoted by the Associated Press, Tuesday (18/12/2012).

 "He never believed that she was old. When we told him about her age, she just shook her head," he added.

At the age of more than a century, Logli describes her grandmother as someone who does not look old appearance. At the age of 110 years, Manfredini hair still looks gray.

She was born on 4 April 1897 in Italy, before moving to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1920. Manfredini has four children, seven grandchildren and more than a dozen great-grandchildren.


Source:  Associated Press

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