Anna Styś
- Full name: Anna Styś (nee Rudnik)
- Lifespan: (24.07.1908 – 01.07.2020)
- Age: 111 years, 343 days
- Birthplace: Zapceń, Germany (now Zapceń, Lipnica Municipality, Bytów County, Voivodeship, Poland)
- Last residence: Chojnice, Pomerania Voivodeship, Poland
- Application date: 02.07.2020
- Validation date: 01.07.2022
- Validation source: Wacław Jan Kroczek
Biography
Anna Rudnik was born in Zapceń, German Empire (now Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland) on 24 July 1908. Her parents were Piotr Rudnik and Elzbieta (née Orzlowska) Rudnik. She had nine siblings.
In the interwar period, she studied in Koscierzyna. There, in 1925, she first graduated from the School of Economics, and then in 1927 from the School of Industry and Commerce.
She married Jozef Stys in 1933. Her husband Jozef, as a military training instructor, was arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo in Chojnice at the beginning of the war. Thanks to Anna’s efforts, he was released from prison together with a friend. He had to flee to the General Government with forged documents. He took part in the resistance movement. He died in 1941 during the war in Jaslo in the present-day Podkarpackie Province.
After the World War II, she settled in Chojnice and worked as an inspector of the Rural Housewives’ Clubs of the Peasant Self-Help Union, later in the casino of the 31st Armored Artillery Regiment, and as an office position in Zaklady Rybne.
In retirement, from the 1970s, she helped raise her beloved nephew Eugeniusz. She cultivated an allotment garden. She worked on the plot until the age of 96.
Anna Stys died in Chojnice, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland on 1 July 2020 at the age of 111 years, 343 days.
At the time of her death she was the second-oldest living person in Poland behind Tekla Juniewicz.
Longevity recognition
- Oldest living person in Pomerania Voivodeship
- Longevity Recordholder of Pomerania Voivodeship
- 2nd oldest living person in Poland (after Tekla Juniewicz)
Validation
Anna Gawłowska was verified by Wacław Jan Kroczek, GRG Poland and Nordic Countries Correspondent, and validated by the Gerontology Research Group on 1 July 2022.
Anna Styś; undated