{"id":11567,"date":"2024-08-20T14:20:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T14:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11567"},"modified":"2024-08-20T14:29:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T14:29:05","slug":"maria-branyas-morera-worlds-oldest-person-dies-at-117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11567","title":{"rendered":"Maria Branyas Morera, World\u2019s Oldest Person, Dies at 117"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ms. Morera, who cultivated a following on social media as \u201cSuper Catalan Grandma,\u201d died peacefully in her sleep, her family said.<\/p>\n

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Maria Branyas Morera, an American-born Spanish woman believed to be the oldest person in the world, has died, according to her family. She was 117.<\/p>\n

Ms. Morera died on Aug. 19 in Olot, Spain, according to an employee at her nursing home, Residencia Santa Maria del Tura. Her family wrote in a post on her X account<\/a> that she had died peacefully, in her sleep.<\/p>\n

\u201cA few days ago she told us: \u201cOne day I will leave here. I will not try coffee again, nor eat yogurt,\u201d her family wrote in Spanish in the post. \u201c\u2018I will also leave my memories, my reflections and I will cease to exist in this body. One day I don\u2019t know, but it\u2019s very close, this long journey will be over.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Born in March 1907 in San Francisco, Ms. Morera grew up in several American cities, including New Orleans, where her father, a journalist, started a Spanish-language magazine that went bankrupt, according to several news stories written about her life. Facing dire straits, the family returned to Spain when Ms. Morera was a child.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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There, she lived through the brutal Franco regime, when the country was wracked by civil war, and she survived both World Wars. She had clear memories of the D-Day invasion at Normandy, she told the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t done anything special to get to this age,\u201d she said in an interview<\/a> with the Spanish newspaper El Pa\u00eds earlier this year.<\/p>\n

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Ms. Morera, who cultivated a following on social media as \u201cSuper Catalan Grandma,\u201d died peacefully in her sleep, her family said.Maria Branyas Morera, an American-born Spanish woman believed to be the oldest person in the world, has died, according to her family. She was 117.Ms. Morera died on Aug. 19 in Olot, Spain, according to an employee at her nursing home, Residencia Santa Maria del Tura. Her family wrote in a post on her X account that she had died peacefully, in her sleep.\u201cA few days ago she told us: \u201cOne day I will leave here. I will not try coffee again, nor eat yogurt,\u201d her family wrote in Spanish in the post. \u201c\u2018I will also leave my memories, my reflections and I will cease to exist in this body. One day I don\u2019t know, but it\u2019s very close, this long journey will be over.\u2019\u201dBorn in March 1907 in San Francisco, Ms. Morera grew up in several American cities, including New Orleans, where her father, a journalist, started a Spanish-language magazine that went bankrupt, according to several news stories written about her life. Facing dire straits, the family returned to Spain when Ms. Morera was a child.There, she lived through the brutal Franco regime, when the country was wracked by civil war, and she survived both World Wars. She had clear memories of the D-Day invasion at Normandy, she told the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia.\u201cI haven\u2019t done anything special to get to this age,\u201d she said in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Pa\u00eds earlier this year.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11569,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11570,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11567\/revisions\/11570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}