Helfrid Eriksson

Helfrid Eriksson (born 23 June 1908) is a Finnish centenarian. She became the oldest person in Finland on 23 January 2017, then aged 108, following the death of 110-year-old Helvi Karki.

Biography
Helfrid Eriksson was born on 23 June 1908 in Pernå, Southern Finland, Finland. Her father was a bricklayer and her mother a housewife. Helfrid and his sister studied at a girls' school in Helsinki. She married taxi driver Paul Eriksson and they had a daughter and two sons. His mother and father lived to be 95 years old.