Fernande Everaert-De Raeve

Fernande Everaert-De Raeve

Fernande Everaert-De Raeve

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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, De Raeve is the oldest living person in Belgium. Raeve is also the last person born in 1906 in Belgium.

Biography

Fernande De Raeve was born on 3 December 1906 in Ledeberg, Ghent, East Flanders. Fernande was eight when the First World War began. Her father was thirty-eight when he died. Her 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 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.

In a 2016 article about her 110th birthday, it was mentioned that De Raeve has became blind since a couple of years and she's almost fully deaf. This makes wachting television or reading a book impossible for her and she even never saw all five of her great-great-grandchildren. Although her days are taking a long time to end, she still enjoys drinking wine and eating chocolate.

References

• 110-jarige Fernande is oudste van Gent (Dutch)