World's oldest person Lucile Randon dies aged 118 as family pay tribute
Lucile worked as a governess in Paris - a period she once called the happiest time of her life - for the children of wealthy families.Driven by a desire to "go further", she joined the Daughters of Charity order of nuns at the relatively late age of 41.In later life she moved to Toulon along the Mediterranean coast.
Her days in the nursing home were punctuated by prayer, mealtimes and visits from residents and hospice workers.In 2021 she survived catching Covid-19, which infected 81 residents of her nursing home."People say that work kills, for me work kept me alive, I kept working until I was 108," she told reporters in April last year in the tearoom of the home.
Although she was blind and relied on a wheelchair, she used to care for other elderly people much younger than herself.
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