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Linda Wiggins
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Linda Pearl Wiggins (née Churches; born September 17 1908 is a New Zealand Supercentenarian. Biography Linda Wiggins was born on September 17 1908 at St Helens Hospital Auckland New Zealand. She was the oldest of 9 children born to Thomas Edwin Churches and Annie May Churches. She had one brother Kenneth Percival Churches (1910-1980). In 1929 she married Fred Wiggins in Dargaville. The couple had 5 children and worked as farmers in Dargaville Kirikopuni and Oramahoe before retiring to Rotorua. Her mother died on December 21 1969 at the age of 80 and her father died in 1975 aged 92. and later Te Puke, where Fred died in 1976. She survived cancer at the age of 60 in 1968. After the death of her husband she moved to Mount Maunganui and spent 27 years there before she moved to Stratford at the age of 99. On her 110th birthday she had 19 grandchildren 50 great grandchildren and 49 great great grandchildren. Wiggins currently lives in Marire Nursing Home Stratford New Zealand. She credits her long life to being happy. 
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