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Helene Nilsen
Helene Nilsen
Birth: 7 April 1901
Kragero, Telemark, Norway
Death: 31 October 2011
Drammen, Buskerud, Norway
Age: 110 years, 207 days
Country: NorwayNOR
Validated

Helene Andrea Nilsen (née Paulsen; 7 April 1901 – 31 October 2011) was a validated Norwegian supercentenarian who was the oldest known living person in Norway at the time of her death.

Biography[]

Helene Andrea Paulsen was born in Kragero on 7 April 1901. She lost her mother at age 5 and her father remarried. When she was a teenager, she took care for her half-sister, while her father was at sea.

She married Arne Nielsen, a watchmaker, and moved with him and their daughter Aase in Rjukan. She worked in her husband's watchmaker and optician business.

Having lived for many years in Rjukan, the couple moved to Drammen in 1972. She remained there for the rest of her life.

She became the oldest known living person in Norway, following the death of 110-year-old Gudrun Onshuus on 9 June 2010.

Nilsen died in Drammen, Buskerud, Norway on 31 October 2011 at the age of 110 years, 207 days.

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Norway's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (VE)

Maria Padderud • Nils Monsen Slaire • Karen Thorsen • Mathias Hansen Saether • Vilhelmine Olsen • Marie Olsen • Gjertrud Aas • Madli Bjoerkenes • Synnoeve Gundersen • Ellen Hoddoe • Beret Esp • Kristine Fredriksen • Ingeborg Time • Hans Aasegg • Tomine Seland • Martha Eike • Olav Holtan • Hulda Lie • Ludvig Froeysland • Karl Holm • Ingebrigt Johansen • Inga Nilsen • Herman Smith-Johannsen • Maren Bolette Torp • Aasne Hustveit • Erik Arnegaard • Klara Joergensen • Inga Storstenvik • Lydianna Endresen • Ella Hagen • Laura Svehaug • Amund Vermedal • Karen Svisdal • Herborg Tjoflot • Olav Hovatn • Harriet Holm • Borghild Nilsen • Anna Gundersen • Asborg Aarli • Ingeborg Thuen • Inger Buchholdt • Emma Bendiksen • Gunda Harangen • Ida Sofie Hanssen • Gudrun Onshuus • Helene Nilsen • Kristi Oektedalen • Ragndid Slotfeldt-Ellingsen • Elisabet Ekenaes • Ragnhild HaugenTorbjorn OverboMarie AndersenPetra HogetveitGudrun NymoenGunhild LyseElsa GundersenVidar EideLina AnundsenMargit Larsen

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