The Guinness Book of World Records named Randon the oldest known surviving person on earth in April 2022 following the passing of Japan's 119-year-old Kane Tanaka.
Digital Desk: The oldest person in the world, Lucile Randon, popularly known as Sister Andre, passed dead on January 17, 2023. Randon, a nun, was born in France on February 11th, 1904. She worked as a teacher and a governess who looked after children from 1939 to 1945, the duration of the Second World War.
Sister Andre endured the Spanish Flu pandemic as well as the First and Second World Wars. Randon spent decades caring for elderly patients and orphaned children at a French hospital before she was ordained as a nun in 1944.
Andre survived both the devastating COVID-19 pandemic and the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. Although she did not show any symptoms, she and 10 other patients of the nursing home where she resided tested positive for COVID. Sister Andre persisted as the other inhabitants perished from the dreadful infection.
The Guinness Book of World Records named Randon the oldest known surviving person on earth in April 2022 following the passing of Japan's 119-year-old Kane Tanaka. She was not only the oldest person still alive, but she was also the oldest nun.
Sister Andre enjoyed wine and chocolate. On January 17, at her care home in Toulon, France, she passed away peacefully.
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