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Lucia Lauria Vigna (4 March 1896 – 28 June 2009) was an Italian supercentenarian who, at the age of 113 years and 116 days, was the oldest person in Europe and 9th-oldest person in the world. She was the second-oldest in the European Union as French national Eugénie Blanchard is older, but lived in Saint Barthélemy, an overseas collectivity of France in the Caribbean.

Lucia Vigna (née Lauria) lived in Pietrapertosa, Potenza in her own home with her family. She became the oldest person in Italy on 13 January 2007, following the death of Maria Negri. On 13 January 2009, she celebrated her second anniversary as Italy's oldest person. She died in her native Pietrapertosa on 28 June 2009.

She is the fourth-oldest Italian-born person on record to date, after Virginia Dighero, Amalia Barone and Teresa Fumarola.

Family

It is not clear when Lucia Lauria married. She had 3 children, two sons, one of whom emigragted to the US, and another who died as well as a daughter who was 83 at the time of her mother's death. Lauria lived with her daughter and her daughter's family since she was 80.

See also

• List of Italian supercentenarians
• List of European supercentenarians

References

• Template:It Article about Lucia Lauria Vigna
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• Template:It icon News on Lucia Lauria's 113th birthday (ANSA press agency)
• Validated Living Supercentenarians

• Recent deaths
• 1896 births
• 2009 deaths
• Italian supercentenarians
• People from Potenza