« The only thing that could kill them was a worldwide pandemic.”
A centenarian who survived the pandemic that was the 1918 Spanish influenza has died after contracting coronavirus. Primetta Giacopini “was a fighter,” her daughter,61-year-old Dorene Giacopini told The Associated Press Thursday of her mother’s incredible life, which ended on Sept.16. She was 105. Surviving the Spanish flu was just one aspect of Giacopini’s eventful century on Earth. “I think my mother would have been around quite a bit longer” had she not gotten sick with COVID, said Dorene. “She had a hard life and her attitude always was… basically, all Americans who were not around for World War II were basically spoiled brats.” After her 25-year-old mother in 1918 Connecticut became one of the roughly 675,000 Americans who died of the Spanish flu, then-2-year-old Primetta was sent to live with an Italian foster family. Dorene said she’s been “reminding myself that she was 105.
