The ceremony at the city’s St. George’s Church on Tuesday was attended by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
In his words of farewell, he described Juniewicz’s passing as "a profound loss." He said she "radiated inner love and good feelings towards all people."
Morawiecki, who visited Juniewicz on her last birthday, added that “she emanated cheerfulness notwithstanding her advanced age.”
”We shall remember her not only as the longest-living citizen of Poland, but also as a person who was able to preserve her warmth and goodness despite changing historical epochs,” Morawiecki said.
He conveyed words of condolence to members of Juniewicz’s family.
Juniewicz was born in Krupsk, near Lviv in today’s Ukraine, on June 10, 1906.
She remembered the time when Poland was partitioned between three neighbouring powers, Russia, Austria and Prussia.
Juniewicz was 12 when Poland regained independence in 1918.
At the age of 21, she married Jan Juniewicz, 22 years her senior, and they moved to Borislav, in present-day Ukraine, where her husband worked in the crude oil industry.
After World War II, the Juniewicz family was repatriated from what was then Soviet territory to Gliwice.
Juniewicz is survived by daughter Urszula, born in 1929.
Her first daughter, Janina, born in 1928, died in 2016.
She is also survived by five grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.
Her youngest great-great-granddaughter, Iga, was born a year ago, on Juniewicz’s 115th birthday.
(mk/gs)