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Hedwig Zaugg, Switzerland’s Second-Oldest Resident, Turns 110

Hedwig Zaugg, a resident of Huttwil, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, is celebrating her 110th birthday today, according to Berner Zeitung.

Hedwig Zaugg was born in the Stampfe district in Walterswil, Canton of Bern, on 17 May 1915. At the age of three and a half, Hedwig lost her mother to the Spanish flu. She grew up as the youngest of four siblings—two sisters and a brother—with the support of her grandparents and under the care of her father, who later remarried. According to her daughter, the family had very little and had to be careful with every penny, yet Hedwig always looked back on her childhood with warmth and affection.

In 1941, at the age of 26, she married Andreas Zaugg. They welcomed their first daughter, Marianne, in 1944, followed by their second daughter, Katharina, in 1949. That same year, Andreas gave Hedwig a sewing machine and a knitting machine to use at home. Also in 1949, the couple took over the stamping mill previously run by Hedwig’s father. She was widowed in 1992.

At the moment, she is the nation’s second-oldest living resident, after Francine Grandjean, a resident of L’Orient (Vaud), who turned 110 in January.

The featured image was taken in 2023, and sourced from Berner Zeitung.

Happy 110th Birthday!