Fanny Godin

Fanny Godin

Fanny Godin on her 111th birthday on 27 May 2013
Born (1902-05-27)27 May 1902
Huy, Liège, Belgium
Died 7 September 2014(2014-09-07)
(aged 112 years, 103 days)
Zoutleeuw, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Spouse(s) Jacques Pardon
Children Claude (born 1944)

Fanny Félicie Florentine Pardon-Godin (27 May 1902 – 7 September 2014)[1] was a Belgian supercentenarian. She was born in Huy (Hoei), in the province of Liege, and lived in Zoutleeuw (Leau), which is part of the province of Flemish Brabant. Godin is the second oldest Belgian person ever and one of only two Belgian persons to have reached the age of 112.[2] The oldest person ever from Belgium was Joanna Deroover (3 June 1890 – 6 December 2002, aged 112 years and 186 days).

Godin was born on 27 May 1902, the youngest of four daughters. She married Jacques Pardon (1907 – 1977) in 1941. They had a daughter, Claude, in 1944. She had no grandchildren. She was able to swim until she was 109 years old.[2][3] Godin was the oldest living person of Belgium since the death of 111-year-old Germaine Degueldre on 11 May 2012,[4] until her own death at age 112 on 7 September 2014. after her death, 110-year-old Anna De Guchtenaere became the oldest person in Belgium.[5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Current Validated Living Supercentenarians (People over the age of 110)". Gerontology Research Group.
  2. 1 2 Oudste Belg wordt 112 jaar 24 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  3. ↑ "109-jarige Fanny Godin neemt duik in Landens zwembad". 21 August 2011. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  4. ↑ "Germaine, doyenne des Belges, s'en est allée". 24 May 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  5. ↑ "Anna De Guchtenaere is now the oldest woman in Belgium". The Brussels Times. September 9, 2014. Archived from the original on July 3, 2015.
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