Katarina Marinič (30 October 1899 - 2 September 2010) was a Slovenian supercentenarian. She was the oldest ever person from Slovenia.[1]
Marinič was the 9th of 10 children born to Anton and Marija Gabrscek at Deskle, Slovenia. In 1915 the family became refugees and moved to Austria, but returned to Slovenia in 1918. During her time in Austria, Marinič worked in the chocolate factory at Vienna and attended a culinary school in Bruck. In 1929 she married Rudolf Marinič at Smrecje. They had no children. Rudolf died in 1967. Marinič had eight nephews and a centenarian niece living in Italy. She lived in a retirement home in Nova Gorica for the last 13 years of her life[2][3]
She died on 2 September 2010, aged 110 years, 307 days, taking the title as Slovenia's oldest person.[4]
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