Fernande Everaert-De Raeve

Fernande Everaert-De Raeve (born 3 December 1906) is a Belgian supercentenarian who is currently unverified. Since the death of 112-year old Alicia Corveleyn on 31 January 2017, Raeve is the oldest living person in Belgium. Raeve is also the last person born in 1906 in the Belgium.

Biography
Fernande De Raeve born 3 December 1906 in Ledeberg, Ghent, East Flanders. Fernande was eight when the First World War began. His father was thirty-eight when he died. His mother had to work hard to survive, and Fernande had to work as a maid. As an orphan of war, she went to a boarding school, where she learned to speak French.

In 1930, she married Fernande Emilius Everaert in Destelbergen. The couple had two children. Emilius died in 1995 at Saint Amand Hospital. In 2000, she moved with her daughter to Dordogne, France. In 2002, Fernande was almost blind, and moved to Heiveld, Gelderland. Fernande has two children, seven grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.