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Beatriz Pirelli Zanandrea
Beatriz Pirelli Zanandrea
Pirelli Zanandrea in June 2021 at the age of 110
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Beatriz Pirelli Zanandrea (19 September 1910 – 6 July 2021) was an Uruguayan supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). At the time of her death, she was the second-oldest living person in Uruguay, after Blanca Luisa Cuitino Barbier.

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Beatriz Pirelli Zanandrea was born in Florida, Uruguay on 19 September 1910. Her parents were Pedro Pirelli (son of Giorgio Pirelli, an Italian immigrant) and Mariana Zanamdrea (from Argentina), who met because their respective families had come together on the trip from Italy, and got married when her mother was just 13 years old.

She had 10 siblings: Leonidas, Asdrubal, Jorgelina, Anibal, Alcides, Blanca, Aurora, Jorge, Luis Alberto, and Nelly. In 1938, she moved to the Montevideo City. She worked as a seamstress, together with her sister Nelly Pirelli.

She married Felix Maria Cabrera [Spanish: Félix María] on 7 September 1929. The couple had two children: Diego Abarore [Spanish: Abaroré], and Tabare [Spanish: Tabaré]. She got widowed in 1959.

She outlived her two children and two of her three grandchildren who died at a very young age. In her last years of life, by her own decision, she settles to live in a Health Residential near where her great-grandchildren lived.

Pirelli Zanandrea died in Montevideo, Uruguay on 6 July 2021 at the age of 110 years, 290 days. At time of her death, she had three grandchildren (Adriana, Diego and Alexander), and nine great-grandchildren (including Jimena).

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