Pierina Pitzalis, a resident of Quartu Sant’Elena, Sardinia, Italy, passed away on 19 October, at the age of 110 years, 227 days.
Pierina Pitzalis was born in Nurri, Sardinia, on 6 March 1916. She was the seventh of ten children born to Pasqualina Rosa Pani, a housewife and seamstress, and Giuseppe, who worked as a road mender and toll collector for the Sardinian Complementary Railways. Although she attended only the first two years of elementary school, she learned to read and write. At the age of ten, she began working as a nanny for several families in villages across the Sarcidano, Trexenta, and Barbagia di Seulo regions, where her father’s work often took him.
After a brief engagement, she married Eugenio Lampis, a farmer, on 17 October 1935, in Seuni, a hamlet of Selegas, at the parish church of Santa Vittoria Vergine e Martire. She gave birth to seven children: Maria, Agnese, Gisella, Rino, and Anna, as well as Giuseppe and Giampaolo, who died in childhood. She was a full-time housewife, baking bread at home every week and regularly visiting the mill to grind the wheat grown by her husband.
We extend our heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of Pierina Pitzalis during this difficult time.
