On June 3, the oldest Greek-Australian woman, Katerina Kilikidis, died at the age of 110 in Melbourne. She lived the Asia Minor Catastrophe in 1922 and survived the difficult overland journey from Turkey to Greece.
With her parents, she went through poverty and misery of the uprooting and set up their house in Vorenos, a village close to Thessaloniki, which, due to the mass settlement of the refugees from the region Nikomedia of Asia Minor, was renamed Nikomidino.
At the age of 19, she married her fellow villager, the unforgettable Charalambos Kilikidis. One day the couple took the great decision for the overseas journey to Australia.
Katerini Kilikidi gave birth to four children. The youngest son, Anastasis Kilikidis, is 70 years old, the oldest 86, and all her children are alive. As AMNA reported, Katerini Kilikidis is also survived by her grandchildren and great grandchildren.
“My father left when he was 93 years old. He was hit and killed by a car in Melbourne,” her son told AMNA, while he added that, “She must have had good genes, which we inherited,” while he mentioned that his mother was very frugal and cautious with food.
The most impressive of all, as Mr. Kilikidis stated, is that the mother of the centenarian grandmother, had also died at the age of 110!
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