The oldest Dane ever, the 112-year-old Karla Lindholm Jensen from Herning, passed away on Thursday.
Her family informs Herning Folkeblad.
With a baptism certificate from 1908, she could in November 2019 call herself the longest living Dane.
According to Herning Folkeblad, this was a status that she herself took with great ease.
Karla Lindholm Jensen lived all her life in Herning, and despite the many years of her life, she has only lived in two different streets – and a total of three different homes.
The last apartment she moved into with her husband in 1974. The following year she became a widow.
And it was here she lived until she slept quietly on Thursday with her loved ones in the living room, exactly as she had wished.
Until her retirement, Karla Lindholm Jensen was a hard-working woman in a full-time job. Among other things, she was employed by Jysk Telefon for almost four decades, before she and her husband established themselves with their own wine and tobacco business, writes Herning Folkeblad.
Karla Lindholm Jensen became a familiar face when in 2017 she was portrayed in the book “Jenny and the other 100+” written by Jørn Jørs Pedersen.
In March 2019, the Danes learned more about Karla Lindholm Jensen, when she starred in the DR1 series “I was born in Denmark” about the beginning and end of life.
Source: The Nordic Page