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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.
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