He would have turned 107 in two weeks: Maria Luigia Cossu , the oldest grandmother of Carbonia with her 106 years, died in the night. It was born in 1915 in the agricultural village of Cannas which is located on the eastern outskirts of Carbonia and which existed well before the city of coal was born.
Nonna Maria Luigia (as her relatives called her) had witnessed the construction of the new town day after day starting from 1936-37. He had seven children, twelve grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren . Three years ago she had been the protagonist of a very unique initiative: the singer- songwriter Ron had complimented her and with an almost contemporary of Carbonia Emanuele Basciu (close to turning 104 in a month), after he had discovered that the two centenarians , born in the same village, they had lost sight of each other for a century and had returned to meet after almost a hundred years. It is to Maria Luigia and to Emanuele (who today expressed condolences for the death of his childhood friend) that the singer-songwriter wanted to dedicate the winning song of Sanremo "I would like to meet you in a hundred years" : a song that really seemed written on fit for Maria Luigia and Emanuele.
Tomorrow evening Maria Luigia's funeral at the Gesù Divino Operario church in via Mazzini.
