The oldest woman in the world has died in France at the age of 118: Sister Andre She was born on February 11, 1904 and was 118 years old. She died in a nursing home in Toulon on Monday night, reports Agence France Presse. Born in Alès (in the Gard), Lucile Randon was killed after the disappearance of the Japanese Kane Tanaka, who died on April 25. For some years now, the elderly religious has not concealed a certain weariness: she hoped “to be able to withdraw from this affair”. But “God doesn’t listen to me,” he confided a year ago. Now confined to a wheelchair and blind, Sister Andrè regretted having lost some of her physical abilities. “They say work kills, but work gave me life. I worked until I was 108,” she said last April, becoming the doyen of humanity after living first in France and then in France Europe was. “It is a great sadness but it is what she wanted, her wish was to reach her beloved brother. It was a liberation for them,” commented David Tavella, communications director at the Sainte-Catherine-Labouré nursing home.
