A 105-year-old woman who lived through the 1918 flu pandemic and multiple wars has died after contracting COVID-19.
“I think my mother would have been around quite a bit longer” if she hadn’t contracted COVID-19, her 61-year-old daughter, Dorene Giacopini, told The“She was a fighter,” she continued. “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 mother died from the 1918 flu, Giacopini was placed with an Italian foster family that relocated to Italy in 1929. She worked as a seamstress and lived in Italy until 1941, about a year after American citizens were told to leave the country or end up in a concentration camp. She moved back to Connecticut and worked for General Motors, grinding steel to cover ball bearings for the war effort, the AP reported. She got married and in 1960 gave birth to Dorene, who has, a birth defect that prevents the spinal cord from fully developing. Primetta advocated for her daughter and disability rights throughout her life.
"She was a fighter." Primetta Giacopini's life began and ended with pandemics. The 105-year-old California woman was 2 years old when she lost her mother to the flu in 1918. And then this month, she died after contracting COVID-19. https://t.co/WW3PGTHTtyThis year, during a visit in early September, Dorene noticed that her mother was
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