Consuelo Moreno-Lopez | |
Birth: | 5 February 1893 Spanish Morocco (now Morocco) |
Death: | 13 November 2004 Virginia, USA |
Age: | 111 years, 282 days |
Country: | MARUSA |
Validated |
Consuelo Moreno-Lopez nee Romero [Spanish: Consuelo Moreno-López] (5 February 1893 – 13 November 2004) was a validated Moroccan-American supercentenarian.
Biography
Consuelo Moreno-Lopez was born in Tangier, Spanish Morocco (then under Spanish protectorate) on 5 February 1893. She had Spanish parents. Her father drowned when she was 15, and she helped support her family by becoming a seamstress. She kept sewing, mostly for spending money, after she got married. She emigrated to the Virginia, United States in 1964.
Moreno-Lopez died in Virginia, United States on 13 November 2004, aged 111 years and 282 days. She remains the oldest validated person ever born in Morocco.
References
- GERONTOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP
- At 110, She’s Still a Model Citizen
- Consuelo Romero, 112, dies The Washington Post, 12 December 2004
- Find A Grave