MADRID (AP) — Maria Branyas, an American-born Spaniard considered nan world’s oldest personification astatine 117 years old, has died, her family said connected Tuesday.
In a station connected Branyas’ X account, her family wrote successful Catalan: “Maria Branyas has near us. She has gone nan measurement she wanted: successful her sleep, astatine peace, and without pain.”
The Gerontology Research Group, which validates specifications of group thought to beryllium 110 aliases older, listed Branyas arsenic nan oldest known personification successful nan world aft nan decease of French nun Lucile Randon past year.
The adjacent oldest personification listed by nan Gerontology Research Group is now Japan’s Tomiko Itooka, who is 116 years old.
Branyas was calved successful San Francisco connected March 4, 1907. After surviving for immoderate years successful New Orleans, wherever her begetter founded a magazine, her family returned to Spain erstwhile she was young. Branyas said that she had memories of crossing nan Atlantic Ocean during World War I.
Her X relationship is called “Super Catalan Grandma” and bears nan description: “I americium old, very old, but not an idiot.”
At property 113, Branyas tested affirmative for COVID-19 during nan world pandemic, but avoided processing terrible symptoms that claimed tens of thousands of older Spaniards.
At nan clip of her decease she was surviving successful a nursing location successful Catalan municipality of Olot.
Her family wrote that Branyas told them days earlier her death: “I don’t cognize when, but very soon this agelong travel will travel to an end. Death will find maine worn down from having lived truthful much, but I want to meet it pinch a smile, emotion free and satisfied.”