The oldest woman in Latin America has died: she was 116 years and 349 days old

Brazilian Francisca Celsa dos SantosHe was the oldest person in Latin America and the third in the world. He died at 116 years and 349 days and the same day another centenarian said goodbye, the French Jules Théobald who had come to his 112th birthday. Dos Santos died last Tuesday in his house in the Messejana neighborhood, strength and his remains were buried in the Cementerio Municipal de Pacajus “Nossa Senhora da Conceição”.

Francisca, born October 21, 1904, was unable to reach her next birthday due to a pneumonia and subsequent multiple organ failure. His strength had surprised the doctors when in 1989, at the age of 85, he succeeded in overcoming a very serious malignant tumor.

Dos Santos was also the third oldest person in the world, having been born on October 21, 1904: he was about to be 117 years old. However, pneumonia and multiple organ failure prevented her from blowing out the candles again. The death of the Brazilian took place last Tuesday at her home in the Messejana neighborhood, in the municipality of Fortaleza: her remains were buried in the municipal cemetery of Pacajus “Nossa Senhora da Conceição”.

Since the death of the Japanese Chiyo Miyako at the age of 117 on July 22, 2018, the title of living person the oldest of world He comes from the Japanese Kane Tanaka, 118 years and 277 days old.

Even if I hadn’t been able to walk for nine years, the Brazilian’s health was good and I didn’t need any medicine to control a typical age abnormality. What they noted on the page Supercentenarians is that his lucidity was extinguished. The young woman worked as a servant, as a saleswoman, then she married Raiumondo Celso with whom had six children, of which, only three are still alive.

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In 2019 he passed his compatriot María Gomes Valentim, who had reached 114 years and 147 days of life and became the oldest Brazilian person in history. Then he left behind the Ecuadorian María Heredia Lecaro de Capovila who had reached 116 years and 147 days and then came first as the oldest person in Latin America.

Strangely enough, the same Tuesday he passed away Jules Théobald, 112 and 171 days, who by March 4 of this year had become the oldest Frenchman in history.

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