Woman, 102, Takes Citizenship Oath
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Rose Lagunoff, who has lived in the United States since emigrating from Eastern Europe 87 years ago, became a U.S. citizen. At 102, she took the oath of allegiance in a special naturalization ceremony at the Springbrook Adventist Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Silver Spring, Md., where she has lived for 13 years. She is among the oldest candidates for citizenship in recent memory, said INS officials present. Lagunoff was born in 1895 in the town of Scusien, near Minsk, the capital of modern day Belarus, part of the former Soviet Union.
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