María Branyas Morera
| María Branyas Morera | |
|---|---|
| Born | 4 March 1907 (age 117 years, 300 days) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Spanish |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Oldest known living person (Since 17 January 2023) |
María Branyas Morera (born 4 March 1907) is an American-born Spanish supercentenarian. At the age of 117 years and 300 days, she has been the world's oldest living person since the death of Lucile Randon on 17 January 2023.[1]
Early years[edit]
María Branyas Morera was born on 4 March 1907, in San Francisco, California, U.S.A to a Catalan family from Spain. Branyas Morera’s family emigrated to San Francisco in 1906, the year before she was born.[2]
Branyas Morera and her family later traveled to New Orleans before moving to Olot, Catalonia, Spain in 1915. While on board the Catalonia to Spain, she fell and permanently lost hearing in one ear. Toward the end of the voyage, her father, Josep Branyas Julia, died from pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 37, so his widow raised their five children.[citation needed]
In July 1931, at the age of 24, María Branyas Morera married her husband, Joan, and had three children.[citation needed]
Health and longevity[edit]
In 2000, at the age of 93, Branyas Morera moved into a care home in Olot. At the age of 110, she read the newspaper every day.
As of August 2019, Branyas Morera had three children, eleven grandchildren, and eleven great-grandchildren.
Branyas Morera is deaf in one ear, and partially deaf in the other, making talking with her difficult, but using a voice-to-text device, her relatives communicate with her fluently.
In March 2020, Branyas Morera became the oldest person to recover from COVID-19. In a interview with the Observer that May, she called for a revolution in treatment of the elderly: “This pandemic has revealed that older people are the forgotten ones of our society. They fought their whole lives, sacrificed time and their dreams for today’s quality of life. They didn’t deserve to leave the world in this way.”[3] In January 2021, she received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, making her one of the oldest people to ever receive the vaccine.
Branyas Morera became a supercentenarian on 4 March 2017. Following the death of Lucile Randon on 17 January 2023, she became the oldest living person in the world.[1]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "World's oldest person, French nun Sister Andre, dies aged 118". The Irish Times. 17 January 2023. Retrieved January 17, 2023.
- ↑ Jordan, Guifré (January 17, 2023). "Catalonia's Maria Branyas becomes oldest living person on Earth at 115". Catalan News.
- ↑ Kassam, Ashifa (16 May 2020). "113-year-old coronavirus survivor: 'The elderly are the forgotten ones of society'". The Guardian. ISSN 1756-3224. Archived from the original on 17 May 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2023. Unknown parameter
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