This is an accepted version of this page Emma Martina Luigia Morano OMRI[1] (29 November 1899 – 15 April 2017) was an Italian supercentenarian.

She had a long-lived family: her mother, an aunt and some of her siblings turned 90, and one of her sisters, Angela Morano (1908–2011),[7] died at age 102.

She subsequently worked in the kitchen of Collegio Santa Maria, a Marianist boarding school in Verbania, until her retirement at the age of 75.

[6] In December 2011, she was awarded the honour of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by President Giorgio Napolitano.

[1] In 2013, when asked about the secret of her longevity, she said that she ate three eggs a day, occasionally drank a glass of homemade grappa, and enjoyed a chocolate sometimes, but, above all, she thought positively about the future.