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Fanny Godin
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Fanny Godin on her 111th birthday on 27 May 2013
Born (1902-05-27)27 May 1902
Died (2014-09-07)7 September 2014
(aged 112 years, 103 days)
Spouse(s) Jacques Pardon
Children Claude (born 1944)

Fanny Félicie Florentine Pardon-Godin (27 May 1902 – 7 September 2014) was the oldest living person in Belgium since the death of Germaine Degueldre on 11 May 2012.

She was born in Huy, in the province of Liège. She lived in Zoutleeuw, which is part of the province of Flemish Brabant. Godin was the second oldest Belgian person ever and one of only two Belgian person to have reached the age of 112. The oldest person ever from Belgium was Joanna Deroover (June 3, 1890 – December 6, 2002).

She married Jacques Pardon (1907-1977) in 1941. They had a daughter, Claude, in 1944. She did not have grandchildren. She was able to swim until she was 109 years old.

Godin died at her home in Zoutleeuw, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, aged 112.

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