Elderly Armenian woman Lucy Mirigian, who enjoyed jigsaw puzzles, good wine, good friends and confounding the US government, has died, San Francisco Chronicle reported.
“She wasn’t really sick,” her daughter, Sonia Mirigian-Koujakian, said. “She died of being 114.”
She lived a full life, her family said, but didn’t really make news until the US 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 said she never got them.
It took the efforts of Congresswoman Jackie Speier to set things right.
Her health was generally robust until very recently, her family said.
Mirigian, who lived with her daughter and son-in-law in the same house she bought in 1950, died Friday morning surrounded by her family. She was believed to be the oldest person in San Francisco.