1. Lucile Randon is the fourth-oldest verified person ever, the oldest nun ever, and the oldest confirmed survivor of the COVID-19 pandemic, having tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 a month before her 117th birthday.
16 Facts About Lucile Randon
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Lucile Randon lived in a nursing home in Toulon, France from 2009 until her death.
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Lucile Randon was born on 11 February 1904 in Ales, France to Paul Lucile Randon and Alphonsine Delphine Yeta Soutoul.
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Lucile Randon's living siblings included three older brothers and a twin sister named Lydie, who died a year after they were born.
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Lucile Randon became a governess to three children in Marseille when she was twenty years old in 1924.
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Lucile Randon took on more responsibility when she was hired as both a governess and teacher by a prominent family, the Peugeots, at Versailles in 1928.
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Lucile Randon grew up in a Huguenot Protestant family and her paternal grandfather Casimir Lucile Randon was a pastor.
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Lucile Randon converted to Catholicism in 1923 at the age of 19.
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Lucile Randon later joined the Catholic order Daughters of Charity in 1944, taking the name Sister Andre in honour of her elder brother.
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Lucile Randon's mission lasted 18 years until she was sent to another hospital at La Baume-d'Hostun, Drome, for night duty in 1963.
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Lucile Randon retired from full-time work in 1979 and entered the EHPAD in the Marches at Savoie, where she continued to care for the elderly until she was 100 years old.
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Lucile Randon was blind and used a wheelchair from the early 2010s.
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Lucile Randon was asymptomatic and tested negative days before her 117th birthday, making her the oldest known survivor of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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On her 118th birthday in February 2022, Lucile Randon received a birthday note from the French president, Emmanuel Macron.
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Lucile Randon died in her sleep from natural causes at her nursing home on 17 January 2023 at the age of 118 years and 340 days as the fourth-oldest verified person ever.
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Branyas was born in 1907, and as such Lucile Randon was the last living person born in 1904.