Hilda Churchill survived the Great War, the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that claimed her baby sister, and World War II, but eight days before her 109th birthday she became Britain’s oldest recorded victim of the coronavirus.

Mrs. Churchill died on Saturday at a nursing home near Salford in Greater Manchester, her grandson Will Hadcroft said.

Mrs. Churchill, a retired seamstress, never smoked or drank much. She had recently been in protective isolation for several days but began showing symptoms of the virus four days before she died. She tested positive for the virus only the night before.

She was born in 1911 in Crewe, south of Manchester, where seven years later the flu struck every member of her family except her and her mother. Her father collapsed in the street. Her year-old sister, Beryl May, died.