USA Today: Born just over a month before the end of the 19th century, Emma Morano is Europe’s oldest living person. Incredibly, she still lives on her own in northern Italy, and takes care of herself and her house independently, according to local media.
Morano was the first of eight children, all of whom have predeceased her, though a sister lived to be 102. In 1926, she married and in 1937 her only child was born, but died at 6 months old. In 1938, she separated from her husband, Giovanni Martinuzzi, but never divorced. Until 1954, she was a worker at a jute factory in her town before working in the kitchen of a boarding school. She retired at 75. Read more here, scroll down.
