Linda Wiggins

Linda Wiggins (born 17 September 1908) is a New Zealandian centenarian, who is currently the oldest living person in New Zealand, and has been so since the death of Madeline Anderson on 19 June 2018.

Biography
Linda was born on 17 September 1908 at St Helen's hospital in Auckland, New Zeeland. She was the oldest of nine children in family. In 1929, she married Fred Wiggins in Dargaville. The couple had five children and farmed in Dargaville, Kirikopuni and Oramahoe before retiring to Rotorua and later Te Puke, where Fred died in 1976. She had a cancer at the age of 60.

After death of her husband, she moved to Mt Maunganui and spent 27 years there before she moved to Stratford at the age of 99.

At the age of 108, she had 19 grandchildren, 47 great-grandchildren and more than 20 great-great-grandchildren.

Linda currently lives in Marire Rest Home, Stratford, New Zeeland at the age of.