After a 23 day hospitalization, Mexico’s oldest woman and quite possibly the oldest women in the world has taken her last breath; she was 119.
The spokesman for the state employees benefits agency in the western state of Colima, Jose Armando Naranjo, told EFE that Perez died Tuesday from ‘generalised septicemia, pneumonia and cardiac problems’. She was buried Wednesday in the community where she lived, La Cofradia de Juarez, in a ceremony attended by some of her 266 descendants.
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Ana Maria Perez Gonzalez was born in Michoacan June 22, 1890. She had four children: Feliciano, Maria, Socorro and Felicitas who blessed her with the love of 30 grandchildren, 122 great-grandchildren, 105 great-great-grandchildren and 5 great-great-great-grandchildren.
Ana Maria, amazingly, lived in three different centuries which allowed her to bare witness to historical events such as the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1911), the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917), the stage of social development of Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-1940), the seventy consecutive years of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) (1929-2000) and winning of the Presidency and current ruling by the National Action Party PAN. (2000- Present).
Although Perez Gonzalez was recognized by President Calderon in 2008 as Mexico’s oldest woman, her application into The Guiness Book of World records as the oldest documented woman was not registered before her passing.
Que En Paz Descanse Anita
