108-year-old dies

ONE OF the oldest women in Cyprus, Eleni Michael Tanousi, died yesterday at the grand age of 108.

Tanousi was born in 1903 on New Year’s Day in Ayia Marina Skyllouras, in the north of Cyprus, but has been living in Kotsiati since the Turkish invasion. She was married to Michael Tanousi who died in 1960.

She had nine children, one of whom has already died. The remainder have gone on to give her 40 grandchildren, 90 great-grandchildren and 25 great-great grandchildren.

Her funeral is today at 4pm at the Ayia Marina church in Kotsiati, with the burial being held at the Maronite cemetery in Anthoupolis.



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