Supercentenarian Profile

Pierina Pitzalis

Born:

1916-03-06

Nurri, Sardinia

Italy

Current Residence:

Quartu Sant'Elena, Sardinia

Italy

Pierina Pitzalis is an Italian supercentenarian.

BIOGRAPHY

Pierina Pitzalis was born in Nurri, Sardinia, Italy, 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.

At 109, she had 10 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren, and 5 great-great-grandchildren.