Happy 130th Birthday! The Oldest Woman In The World

Antisa Khvichava from western Georgia was born on July 8, 1880. The woman, who lives with her 40-year-old grandson in an idyllic vine-covered country house in the mountains. She retired from her job as a tea and corn picker in 1965, when she was 85, records say. Her age couldn’t immediately be independently verified. Her birth certificate was lost – one of the great number to have disappeared in the past century amid revolutions and a civil war which followed the collapse of the Russian Empire. The organization is yet to examine Khvichava’s claim. hvichava has a son, 10 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren and six great, great grandchidren.Khvichava’s 70-year-old son Mikhail apparently was born when his mother was 60. She said she also had two children from a previous marriage, but says they died of hunger during World War II.