Remembering the World’s Oldest Person, in the Objects She Left Behind
Santoni said that She always said, ‘I paid for it; I had it made,
She was always polite and patient, Ms. Santoni said, "but after a while, she would turn to me
and say in dialect, ‘Are they ever going to leave?’" Ms. Morano was buried in the local cemetery, in the family tomb.
Ms. Morano hadn’t left her apartment for years, Ms. Santoni said.
On the day of Ms. Morano’s funeral, as her coffin was being lowered into the ground, the woman called out, "Emma, I’m counting on you to give me as long a life as you had!" Ms. Morano always took care of herself, going regularly to a hairdresser when she still went out in public, and she even fretted
that she had to be well groomed because of the pilgrimage of visitors.
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO VERBANIA, Italy — The last time Emma Morano left her apartment, she was 102 years old.
"We have too many things, too many distractions, too many items offered to us, too many messages,
and a person like Emma struggles to emerge," the Rev.
Rosemarie Santoni said that All the sisters were determined,
