Elin Astrid Sofia Zachrison (15 May 1895, Fliseryd

Fliseryd

Fliseryd is a locality situated in Mönsterås Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 710 inhabitants in 2005....

– 15 May 2008) was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 supercentenarian

Supercentenarian

A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....

. She became Sweden's oldest person ever on 6 October 2007, surpassing the age attained by Elsa Moberg

Elsa Moberg

Elsa Moberg was a Swedish supercentenarian who was the oldest Swede on record , until Astrid Zachrison surpassed that age in October 2007...

. She is the second oldest Nordic person on record, after Christian Mortensen

Christian Mortensen

Thomas Peter Thorvald Kristian Ferdinand Mortensen , known as an adult as Christian Mortensen, was a Danish supercentenarian. At the time of his death he was 115 years and 252 days old—the longest fully authenticated lifespan of any male in history...

 of Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

.

Zachrison was born in Åby in Fliseryd, west of Oskarshamn

Oskarshamn

Oskarshamn is a coastal city and the seat of Oskarshamn Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 17,258 inhabitants in 2010.-History:The location of Oskarshamn was known as Döderhultsvik since the Medieval age...

. According to the Gerontology Research Group

Gerontology Research Group

The Gerontology Research Group was started in 1990, and is a global eGroup of researchers in gerontology, some of who also meet monthly at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. The primary function of the group is to further gerontology research, with the objective of reversing or retarding aging...

, she died in the early morning of her 113th birthday.

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• http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=147&a=701199
• http://sydsvenskan.se/familj/fodelsedag/article270884.ece