Radusa Ivanovic

Radusa Ivanovic
Radusa Ivanovic in her 90s
Birth:	15 June 1919 Mosori, Danilovgrad, Montenegro
Death:	31 August 2024 Vranici, Podgorica, Montenegro
Age:	105 years, 77 days
Country:	MNE
Centenarian

Radusa Ivanovic [Montenegrin: Радуша Ивановић] (née: Jovanovic; 15 June 1919 – 31 August 2024) was a Montenegrin centenarian who was the oldest living person in Montenegro at the time of her death. She was also member of the partisan movement and a participant in the national liberation struggle of the people of Yugoslavia during World War II.

Biography

Radusa Ivanovic was born in the village of Mosori, Danilovgrad, Montenegro on 15 June 1919. She had one sister and four brothers. Her brother Petar Jovanovic died in the battle on Sutjeska as a participant of the National liberation struggle of the people of Yugoslavia. Radusa actively participated in the National liberation struggle of the people of Yugoslavia during the world war II, among other things in the battle of Pljevlja. Immediately after the end of the war, she was briefly employed at the Titograd tobacco factory, after which she devoted herself to housekeeping.

She married Petar Ivanovic and with him she had two daughters, of whom she later had two grandchildren.

In June 2019, she celebrated her 100th birthday and became a centenarian.

She became the oldest known living person in Montenegro, following the death of 105-year-old Danica Borozan on 23 June 2023.

Radusa Ivanovic died in the suburbanneighborhood of Vranici, Podgorica, Montenegro at the age of 105 years, 77 days. She was the last surviving Montenegrin born in the decade of the 1910s.

Gallery

Radusa Ivanovic in the mid-1980s with her grandson Miljan Nikolic (born 1981)

Radusa Ivanovic in the late 1990s

References

• Partizanka Raduša Ivanović: Velika pljevaljska pogibija CdM Portal, 2 December 2018
• Partizanka Raduša Ivanović: Velika pljevaljska pogibija Aktuelno, 2 December 2018
• Partizanka iz NOR-a napunila 103. godine i glasa DPS Dan, 12 May 2022
• DPS Glavnog grada: Slavna partizanka i u 103. godini uz našu partiju Portal Analitika, 12 May 2022
• Penzionerima koji imaju više od 100 godina, uplaćeno po 250 EURA Portal Zeta, 23 December 2023
• RADUŠA P IVANOVIĆ Dan Umrlice, 1 September 2024

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

Dusan Stojovic • Fahrija Mucic • Krsto Vojvodic • Bozo Colovic • Bozana Mandalinic • Petar Grujic • Mileva Tomovic • Danica Borozan • Radusa Ivanovic