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[email protected] Lucia DeClerck is pictured on Oahu in an undated photo. The now-105 year-old New Jersey resident was born on Maui. Photos courtesy DeClerck family At 105 years old, Maui-born Lucia DeClerck has plenty to celebrate she just hit a milestone birthday, she beat COVID-19 and she’s now lived through two global pandemics. DeClerck, who attended school and church at St. Anthony in Wailuku in the early 1900s and now resides in New Jersey, tested positive for COVID-19 on her 105th birthday on Jan. 25. Her eldest son, Henry Laws III, who lives about 15 miles away from his mother’s care home, said they kept the faith that their family matriarch would be OK after she came down with the virus. ....
A 105-year-old New Jersey woman who has survived COVID-19 is also a survivor of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, two world wars, and three husbands. ....
Lucia DeClerck found out she had contracted Covid-19 on her 105th birthday, and she credits gin-soaked raisins for her success with beating the virus. ....
DeClerck told The Times that she was scared at first, upon hearing of her diagnosis. Although she showed few symptoms of the illness, she didn t like being isolated. She also missed her interaction with her caregivers at the Mystic Meadows Rehabilitation and Nursing facility in Little Egg Harbor, where she s the oldest resident and was active until she injured herself in a fall about four years ago. But the devout Catholic declared, God will protect me, and within two weeks DeClerck had recovered and was back in her room at the home, Neiman said. Naturally, when DeClerck s family two surviving sons, five grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great grandchildren found out she had contracted the coronavirus, they prepared themselves for the worst. It was a stark contrast to life in January 2020, when the family congregated at Mystic Meadows to celebrate DeClerck s 104th birthday, not long before the start of the pandemic. ....