A 115-year-old Spaniard, born in the United States, could be the new dean of humanity, a consultant in the Guinness Book of Records said on Wednesday, after the death of Sister André, at the age of 118.
María Branyas Morera has lived for 20 years in the Santa María del Tura nursing home in the city of Olot, Catalonia, in northeastern Spain.
Guinness World Records senior gerontology consultant Robert D. Young said it is “probable” that Morera is humanity’s new dean, but he is still confirming the information, he explained, in statements to France-Presse. agency (AFP).
The nursing home where this Spaniard is located has already announced that it will hold a “small party” behind closed doors, in the coming days, to “celebrate this very special event.”
“She is in good health and is surprised and grateful for the interest that has been generated,” the establishment said.
The Guinness organization is expected to make an official decision after reviewing documents and interviewing Morera’s family, added Young, who is also director of the Gerontology Research Group’s supercentenarian research database.
María Branyas Morera survived the 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, two world wars, and the Spanish Civil War.
The centenarian’s youngest daughter, Rosa Moret, 78, praised her mother’s good health, which she said was due to “genetics”.
“He never went to the hospital, he never broke anything,” Rosa Moret stressed in statements to Catalan regional television this Wednesday.
Morera was born in San Francisco, in the western United States, on March 4, 1907, shortly after his Spanish family moved to the United States from Mexico.
Maria’s family then moved to New Orleans, in the southern United States, in 1910, before returning to Spain in 1915. In 1931, she married a doctor, who died at age 72.
He had three children, one of whom is deceased, 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
The French nun Lucile Randon, known as Sister André, who since April 2022 was the dean of humanity, died at dawn from Monday to Tuesday, at the nursing home where she was located, in Toulon, in the south of France. .
No official body awards titles such as dean, but experts agreed that Sister Andrew was the oldest living person whose record has been verified.
The Guinness Book of Records had also registered this record on April 25, after the death at the age of 119 of the Japanese Kane Tanaka.
Source: TSF
