Darinka Jandrić

Darinka Jandrić (, née Krivokapić; 17 December 1910 – 4 February 2019) was a Bosnian-Serbian nurse who participated in the Second World War in Yugoslavia as part of the Yugoslav Partisans. She was proclaimed a national heroine of Yugoslavia after the war. She was also a centenarian, and at the time of her death, the oldest living person in Serbia.

Biography Darinka Jandrić was born under the name Darinka (Tomo) Krivokapić in Aranđelovo, Austria-Hungary (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) on 17 December 1910. She was one of five children.

At the age of 4, under the influence of the First World War, she moved with her family to Peja, and shortly afterwards to Nikšić. She remembered the tragedy that befell her family when they set fire to their house and drove them away. Her parents wanted their children to be educated, so she finished primary school and on the initiative of her neighbor Vlado Šegrt, school for nurses.

Most of her family was murdered by Ustaše at the start of the Second World War.

She has lived in Belgrade since 1962 in her family house in Banjica, which she built alone with her husband Dušan. She was a member of the Association of Trebinje Residents in Belgrade. She retired with a rank of a Senior sergeant in the Yugoslav Ground Forces.

Darinka died in Belgrade, Serbia on 4 February 2019 at the age of 108 years, 48 days. She was buried on 7 February 2019, with military honors at the Belgrade New Cemetery. Following her death, the new oldest person in Serbia became Nadežda Pavlović, two years younger.