February 15, 2021 - 10:46 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian-American Lucy Mirigian, who was believed to be the oldest person in San Francisco, has died, The San Francisco Chronicle reports.
“She wasn’t really sick,” her daughter, Sonia Mirigian-Koujakian, said. “She died of being 114.”
Mirigian, who lived with her daughter and son-in-law in the same Balboa Park house she bought in 1950, died Friday, February 12 morning surrounded by her family.
She lived a full life, her family said, but didn’t really make news until the U.S. government decided in 2017, without any apparent proof, that she was already dead and no longer entitled to receive her $377-a-month government pension. The government said she had not responded to letters; Mirigian s...
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