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Izabel Rosa Pereira
Izabel Rosa Pereira
Rosa Pereira (aged 113) on 31 July 2024
Birth: 13 October 1910
Caputira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Age: 114 years, 56 days
Country: BrazilBRA
Unvalidated

Izabel Rosa Pereira (born 13 October 1910) is a Brazilian supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

Biography[]

Izabel Rosa Pereira was born on 13 October 1910, on the farm of her uncle, Antônio Inácio, near Caputira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. She was the daughter of Manoel Pinto Moreira and Francisca Leocádia Moreira, and the fourth of five siblings.

Rosa Pereira married Antônio José Pereira. Antônio, a widower at the time, already had three children: José, 2 years old; Conceição, 6 years old; and Efigenia, 8 years old. Together, Izabel and Antônio had twelve children, nine of whom were still living as of February 2024: Lairdes, Maria, Manoel, Joaquim, Sebastian, João, Vincent, Francisca, and Helena. Izabel spent her entire life in Caputira. Over the years, the family acquired their own land, where they still reside today.

As of 2022, she was reported to still enjoy eating smoked bacon and cabbage porridge with a pinch of beans. Despite her age, she remained lucid and concerned about the news regarding the current state of the world. To occupy her time, she loved having family and friends visit to chat. When asked what she believes is most important in the world, she stated that it is her beautiful family.

As of February 2024, she was also a grandmother to 30 grandchildren, a great-grandmother to 23, and a great-great-grandmother to 8. She was widowed in April 2001.

If her age is validated, Izabel will be the last Brazilian born during the government of President Nilo Peçanha (1909-1910).

Izabel Rosa Pereira currently lives in Caputira, Minas Gerais, Brazil at the age of 114 years, 56 days. She is currently the second-oldest known living person in Brazil, after Inah Canabarro Lucas. If verified she would also be the joint eighth-oldest living person in the world along with Claudia Baccarini with whom she shares a birth date.

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