The oldest woman in the Czech Republic turned 108 years old
Blažena Strahotova, the oldest resident of the Czech Republic, turned 108 years old. Radio Český Rozhlas reported about it on February 9.
"Blažena Strahotova is 108 years old. The oldest citizen of the Czech Republic was born on February 9, 1917 in Slavicina in the Zlín region and now lives in Ceske Budejovice. She has seen many things in her life, including Presidents Masaryk and Benes, and witnessed an air battle near her hometown," the radio station reported.
She currently lives alone in an apartment in the town of Ceske Budejovice. Lunches are reportedly brought to the elderly woman regularly by employees of a neighboring business.
"In the morning I make myself breakfast - a slice of bread and a spoonful of honey on it. This is my breakfast every day," said the long-lived woman.
The oldest Czech woman learned her trade as a butcher and sausage maker. All her life she had to work with her hands in one way or another, for example as a saleswoman in a sausage shop.
"My husband inherited a soda water factory from his parents, I survived the war, nationalization. When all the enterprises were closed, we had to move out of the house, we were engaged in the delivery of building materials," she recalls her long life journey.
At the same time, she is full of energy, tries to move more and exercises for half an hour every day.
Blazhena Strakhotova's entire family, including her great-grandchildren, came to congratulate her on her 108th birthday.
"When you have a loving and beloved family, old age becomes joyful," she says about it.
The radio station notes that the Czech Republic is now home to about 1,000 people over the age of 100, the vast majority of whom are women.
On November 26, 2024, the oldest man in the world, John Alfred Tinniswood , died in the UK at the 113th year of life. He won the Guinness Book of World Records title in April that year after the death of its previous holder, Juan Vicente Perez Mora, who died at the age of 114.
Earlier in April 2024, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced the death of Perez Mora in his 115th year of life. In February 2022, the long-lived man was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records.
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