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Felicite Jandia
Birth: 12 February 1881
Le Vauclin, Martinique, France
Death: 7 December 1992
Riviere-Pilote, Martinique, France
Age: 111 years, 299 days
Country: Martinique (France)MTQ,FranceFRA
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Felicite Jandia [French: Félicité Jandia] (née Ajax; 12 February 1881 – 7 December 1992) was a French supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group. She lived in the French overseas territory of Martinique.

Biography[]

Felicite Jandia was born as Felicite Ajax on 12 February 1881 in Le Vauclin, Martinique, France. She married Louis Montabord (born 1863), and had at least two daughters: Julie Montabord (1906–2019) and Louise Montabord (1907 – ?). Later, she remarried Jules Jandia.

Her first daughter, Julie Montabord, also became a supercentenarian in 2016, making them just the second known parent-child supercentenarian pair in history and the pair recordholder for the highest combined parent-child age.

Jandia died in Riviere-Pilote [French: Rivière-Pilote], Martinique, France, on 7 December 1992, at the age of 111 years, 299 days. She was the second-oldest living person in France at the time of her death, after Jeanne Calment.

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Martinique's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (VE)

Felicite JandiaMarie FredericLuce MacedAngele Marc • Marcelle Corlet • Louise Bilon • Veronique Louis-SidneyIrenise Moulonguet • Jeanne Lechar • Virginie Nirde • Julie MontabordJules TheobaldPhilomene FibleuilMarie-Dominique Zadick