A Spanish woman, at the age of 115, is the dean of the possible new human age. "Video"
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An elderly Spanish woman of 115 years old, born in the United States, has become probably the dean of the new age of humanity, according to what an advisor to the Guinness Book of Records announced, following the death of the former title holder, the French nun Andre, at the age of 118.
Maria Branyas Moreira has been living for twenty years in the Santa Maria del Tura nursing home in the city of Olot in northeastern Spain.
The house said it would organize a closed "small celebration" in the coming days "to celebrate this very special event".
Guinness World Records' senior advisor, Robert D.
Young, in an e-mail to Agence France-Presse, that Neil Moreira's title of Dean of Human Age is "likely", but "it is not certain at this moment."
Young, who also manages a database on the elderly at the "Gerontology Research Group" center, pointed out that the Guinness Organization will make an official decision after verifying official documents and interviewing Moreira's family.
Maria Branyas Moreira experienced the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, the two world wars and the Spanish Civil War.
Moreira's eldest daughter, Rosa Moret, 78, praised her mother's health, which, in her opinion, was caused by "hereditary" factors.
Rosa Morin said Wednesday, in statements on Catalonia TV, that her mother "never went to the hospital and did not suffer any fracture" in her body.
Maria Branyas Moreira was born in San Francisco in the western United States on March 4, 1907, shortly after her Spanish-descended family moved from Mexico to the United States.
After that, her family moved to New Orleans, in the south of the United States, in 1910, before returning to Spain in 1915. In 1931, she married a doctor who died at the age of 72.
She gave birth to three children, one of whom is deceased, and she has 11 grandchildren, while the number of her great-grandchildren is 11.
The French nun Andre, whose original name was Lucille Randon, was born on February 11, 1904 in Alice, in southern France, since April 2022, the dean of humanity.
She died in her sleep on the night of Monday to Tuesday in a home for the elderly in Toulon, in southern France.
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