Karin Larsson

Karin Larsson
Birth:	17 May 1904 Tomasboda, Gronbo, Sweden
Death:	24 May 2014 Lindesberg, Orebro, Sweden
Age:	110 years, 7 days
Country:	SWE
Validated

Karin Ejvor Larsson (née Johansson; 17 May 1904 – 24 May 2014) was a Swedish supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). She was the oldest known living person in Sweden at the time of her death, though not the oldest living Swedish-born person as US resident Conrad Johnson was four months older.

Biography

Larsson was born as Karin Ejvor Johansson in Fellingsbro, Örebro, Sweden on 17 May 1904 to August Johansson and Anna Josefina Persson. She grew up on a farm called Tomasboda, located in Grönbo, which her family had lived in from 1912 to 1920. They then moved to a dwelling named Sundbobruk, near Örebro.

Larsson worked at the university hospital in Uppsala, where she lived for a few years. She returned home to Sundbobruk to care for her father when he was taken ill. In July 1944, aged 40, she married Erik Larsson, and their only daughter, Kerstin, was born in September that year. They settled in Grönbo.

After Larsson was widowed in 1965, she again moved back into Sundbobruk, living there until her 90th birthday in 1994, when she moved into a nursing home in Lindesberg, Örebro. It was around this time that she became completely blind.

Following the death of Ellen Vestling on 5 February 2014, Larsson became Sweden's oldest resident. She celebrated her 110th birthday on 17 May 2014 and died seven days later, on 24 May 2014 at the age of 110 years, 7 days. Her successor as the oldest living person in Sweden was then-109-year-old Gulli Bergendahl.

Recognition

An article was published about Larsson ten days after her death on the website Nerikes Allehanda. No other articles about her are known to exist.

References

• GRG Pending Cases List as of March 15, 2015 Gerontology Research Group
• https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/karin-larsson/ Karin Larsson
• Sveriges och Lindesbergs äldsta har avlidit NA, 3 June 2014

Sweden's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • E)

Anna Matilda Johansson • Elin Johansson • Selma Andersson • Clara Hedwin • Anna Wetterhall • Alfred Lagerstrom • Anna Persson • Karl Ljungberg/ Carolina Nilsson • Julia Karlsson • Wilhelmine Sande • Hilda Pettersson • Anna Andersson • Gustava Vikstrom • Ida Johnson • Elfrida Andersson • Alma Klingvall • Alfrida Engblom • Hulda Johansson • Ellen Andreasson • Hilma Rothman • Ellen Johansson • Clara Asberg • Hilda Grahn/ Teresia Lindahl • Elsa Moberg • Jenny Karlsson • Johanne Svensson • Anders Engberg • Elin Antonsson • Astrid Zachrison • Rut Mikaelsson • Maria Eriksson • Ester Johansson • Ruth Engstrom • Ellen Vestling • Karin Larsson • Gulli Bergendahl • Rut Emriksson • Ingeborg Damgren • Nanny Halvardsson • Alice Ostlund • Carl Mattsson • Flarid Lagerlund • Gunborg Hancock • Agnes Bostrom • Annie Sjostrom