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Helfrid Eriksson
Helfrid Eriksson
Helfrid Eriksson on her 109th birthday.
Birth: 23 June 1908
Pernå, Southern Finland, Finland
Death: 23 October 2018
Korsholm, Ostrobothnia, Finland
Age: 110 years, 122 days
Country: FinlandFIN
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Helfrid Eriksson (née Strandborg; 23 June 1908 – 23 October 2018) was a Finnish supercentenarian whose age has been validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). She became the oldest person in Finland on 23 January 2017, then aged 108, following the death of 110-year-old Helvi Karki.

Biography

Helfrid Eriksson was born as Helfrid Strandborg on 23 June 1908 in Pernå, Southern Finland, Finland. Her father was a bricklayer and her mother a housewife. Helfrid and her sister studied at a girls' school in Helsinki. She married taxi driver Paul Eriksson and they had a daughter and two sons. Her mother and father lived to be 95 years old.

Helfrid Eriksson died in Korsholm, Ostrobothnia, Finland on 23 October 2018, at the age of 110 years, 122 days.

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Finland's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (VE)

Eva EnströmIsak SmedbergHedvig SateriAnders LindholmMaria HolmbergMaria AhonenLeena LindqvistKajsa FellmanSofie TörnuddMaria KoskinenFredrika MännistöErkki HelminenHeikki KämäräinenAlexander von StahlOlivia RosvallGreta HelinKajsa Stina ForsströmEva BlomqvistMaria PekuriEmma HeikkiläInes AchrenOlga ToivonenElina PeuralaAleksandra LindroosElisabeth RantamakiLiisa StrellmanAmalia WalleniusIda SaarinenMaria ValimakiMaria KumlanderAmanda RiihelaMathilda HonkaFanny NystromIda Virenius • Klaara Tyyniaho • Amanda Moksi • Kalle Nestor LaunistoMaria Rothovius • Daisy Göhle • Sigrid Viik • Hilda Hakkinen • Anna Hagman • Elsa Tilkanen • Aarne Arvonen • Viljo Kekola • Jussi Leskinen • Aino Yrttimaa • Selma Tuominen • Helvi Karki • Helfrid Eriksson • Saara AhonenHelvi HarmaAstrid QvistSirkka NieminenHelvi KissalaGunnel StenbackArvi Hämäläinen

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