Rosa Bandini

Rosa Bandini (19 September 1901 – 12 June 2014) was an Italian supercentenarian whose age has been validated by the Gerontology Research Group.

Biography
Rosa Bandini was born on 19 September 1901 in Brisighella, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She saw the light in a family of seven brothers in the parish of Sarna. In her long life she has known misery, war, pain, always supported by a great faith and hope.

After working as a teacher in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, Rosa decided to return to Romagna, in Faenza, where she worked in a pottery shop. There she met the man who would become her husband, Francesco Alberghi, who worked as an electrician. The couple had a son and two grandchildren. She also never smoked or had bad eating habits.

Bandini died on 12 June 2014 in Forli, Emilia-Romagna, Italy at the age of 112 years, 274 days.