Long-lived Family
Todde was born in the village of Tiana, in the province of Nuoro, Sardinia. The hilly countryside of Nuoro is noted for its remarkable centenarian density. Among the extremely small number of people who reach supercentenarian age worldwide, males are a pronounced minority. Still, at the end of his life, Todde was only one of two known living Sardinian supercentenarians, the other being Giovanni Frau of Orroli, who was then 111.
After becoming a widower, Todde's daughters, Laura, 79, and Angela, 76—comparative youngsters in a family where one of his cousins, Michela Deiana, also lived until age 100— looked after him. His father lived to be 90; his mother might well have lived past her centenary, had rotten cheese not intervened at age 98. At the time of Todde's death, his sister was still going strong at 97.
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