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Marie-Alexina Madacene
Marie-Alexina Madacene
Madacene on her 109th birthday in 2021.
Birth: 8 May 1912
Saint-Paul, Reunion
Death: 26 April 2022
Saint-Paul, Reunion
Age: 109 years, 353 days
Country: Réunion (France)REU, FRA
Centenarian

Marie-Alexina Madacene [French: Madacène] (née Dorval; 8 May 1912 – 26 April 2022) was a Reunionese centenarian who was the oldest known living person in Reunion at the time of her death. However, she was the second-oldest known living Reunionese-born person, behind Elisabelle Lallemand of Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France.

Biography[]

Marie-Alexina Madacene was born on 8 May 1912 in La Saline-les-Hauts, a neighbourhood of Saint-Paul, Reunion. She spent all her life in the commune of Saint-Paul.

In October 2018, at the age of 106, Madacene was honoured during the blue week by Saint-Paul's commune, as the 13 others centenarians of the commune.

Madacene died in Saint-Paul, Reunion on 26 April 2022, at the age of 109 years, 353 days.

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Reunion's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (VE)

Marcelle AntoinetteJean-Clementus AmanoEliane HoareauMarie-Alexina MadaceneMarie-Jeanne Simaho

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