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Hendersonville has link to oldest person

By Bill Moss, Published: June 17, 2016

When Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world’s oldest person, died in New York last month the title of world’s oldest person went to Emma Morano, giving Hendersonville a footnote connection. Morano lives in Verbania, Italy, one of Hendersonville’s sister cities.

“The oldest living person in the world, and perhaps the only one left who has touched three centuries, is a raw-egg-eating, brandy-drinking Italian woman who credits her long life to her daily eggs, her early bedtime and being single,” the Washington Post reported.
Renzo Maietto, the owner of Renzo’s Italian Ristorrante and a native of Verbania, notified the Lightning of the connection. He said he did not know her personally but thought his parents had known her.
The Guinness World Records confirmed that Morano, at 116 years and 169 days old, is the oldest living person.
“Ms. Morano has experienced things first hand that will soon be consigned to memory, and the record books,” Marco Frigatti, the Guinness World Records head of records, said. “She can teach us all a lesson of the value of a life well lived.”