Oldest woman in Taranaki, Lola de la Haye, dies aged 109

Lola de la Haye died on Tuesday at 109. She was the oldest person in Taranaki and one of the oldest people in New Zealand. De laHaye was a farm wife, grandmother, great-grandmother and great grandmother. Her funeral will take place on Saturday. She will be driven in the 1930s Nash Super Six. The funeral home will do up the funeral in a Nash. Lola's husband died in 1979. He had a stroke before his 40th wedding anniversary. His farm is named after him. It sits on the land where Lula and her husband once owned. They farmed in Merrilands.

Lola de la Haye died at 109. She was born in 1909. De laHaye married John in 1933. World War II ended in 1945. Helen Clarke became the first elected woman Prime Minister in 1999. John Key is the Prime minister of New Zealand. In 2009, de La Haya reaches 100. In 2019, 51 people were killed in the Christchurch Mosque shooting.