Big party in Oristano for the new centenarian Giannetta Marongiu , who blew out the candles yesterday together with her family and friends.

Also celebrating her was the municipal councilor Ivano Cuccu who gave her a commemorative plaque in the name of the mayor Massimiliano Sanna and the entire city community .

Born in Cabras on 8 January 1924, Giannetta married Antonino Cadeddu and moved to Oristano in the 1950s. Together with her husband for many years she collaborated in running the bar and billiard room in Via Figoli, which was very well known and popular.

Mother of three children, Augusto, Carlo and Pierfranco, today Giannetta has 3 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. Yesterday everyone was with her to celebrate this important milestone.

A great knitting and crochet enthusiast, she has always loved gardening and still looks after plants and flowers with care and passion . She has always been very religious.

Her children describe her as a very skilled cook and say that Peppetto Pau , who in addition to his culture was famous for his skill in the kitchen, loved to frequent Antonino Cadeddu's house and savor the delicious free-range chickens with sauce prepared by the lady Giannetta.

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