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Andree Bertoletto

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Andree Bertoletto
Andree Bertoletto
Bertoletto (aged 112) in May 2023
Birth: 1 January 1911
La Chapelle-Anthenaise, Mayenne, Pays de la Loire, France
Death: 16 October 2025
Montsurs, Mayenne, Pays de la Loire, France
Age: 114 years, 288 days
Country: FranceFRA
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Andree Bertoletto [French: Andrée] (née Bellayer; 1 January 1911 – 16 October 2025) was a French supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

Biography

Andree Bertoletto was born in La Chapelle-Anthenaise, Mayenne, Pays de la Loire, France on 1 January 1911. She had one sister, Marie, and two brothers, Robert and Ernest. She moved to Montsurs, Mayenne, Pays de la Loire in 1913.

On 25 May 1935 in Montsurs, she married Desire Alphonse Bertoletto. Her husband was the leader of a building work company. She got widowed in 1978.

Bertoletto lived in her own house until she was 105, when she struggled during an entire night to mop up water after a flood. After that, she moved into the nursing home "La douceur de vivre" in Montsurs. Bertoletto now has difficulty hearing but her memory is still active.

In January 2021, Bertoletto celebrated her 110th birthday and became a supercentenarian. At the time, she had 14 nephews, 30 grand-nephews, and 20 great-grand-nephews. She outlived three other nephews.

Following the death of Marie-Louise Berthelot on 17 January 2021, Bertoletto became the oldest known living person in Mayenne departement.

On 17 August 2023, the Gerontology Research Group announced on the World Supercentenarian Forum that Bertoletto had been given the pending status. Her age was later validated on 10 September 2023.

Andree Bertoletto died in Montsurs, Mayenne, Pays de la Loire, France, on 16 October 2025 at the age of 114 years, 288 days. Since the death of Emilienne Becarmin on 15 January 2025, she had been the last known surviving French person born in 1911. At the time of her death, she was the second-oldest known living person in Pays de la Loire, as well as the second-oldest known living person in France, after Marie-Rose Tessier, as well as the sixth-oldest validated living person in the world after Ethel Caterham, Tessier, Naomi Whitehead, Lucia Laura Sangenito, and Klavdiya Gadyuchkina.

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