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Caroline Daniel
Caroline Daniel
Daniel on her 100th birthday in 2012
Birth: 9 January 1912
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Death: 20 November 2015
Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Age: 103 years, 311 days
Country: Cook IslandsCOK,AustraliaAUS
Centenarian

Caroline Daniel (9 January 1912 – 20 November 2015) was a centenarian from Cook Islands, an overseas territory of Australia.

Biography[]

Caroline Daniel was born in Mangaia, Cook Islands on 9 January 1912. She became a nurse in Samoa in 1932. During World War II, Caroline was a nurse in Aitutaki, where American soldiers were based. After the war, Caroline and her husband Papa Daniel moved to New Zealand, as jobs on Aitutaki were scarce. Later Caroline moved to Whakatane and became the secretary at a paper mill. She came back to the Cook Islands to help with his cousin Albert Henry election campaign before he came to office in 1965.

Daniel died in Aitutaki, Cook Islands on 20 November 2015 at the age of 103 years, 311 days.[1] At the time of her death, she had nine grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren and six great-great grandchildren. She is currently oldest known woman ever from Cook Islands.

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