Maria Luisa Vazquez de Silva

Maria Luisa Vazquez de Silva
Vazquez de Silva at the age of 108.
Birth:	29 March 1910 Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
Death:	24 December 2021 Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
Age:	111 years, 270 days
Country:	ESP
Validated

Maria Luisa "Lulu" Vazquez de Silva (29 March 1910 – 24 December 2021) was a Spanish supercentenarian whose age was validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) in 2022.

Biography

Vazquez de Silva was born in the street of Travesia Padre Amoedo in Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain, on 29 March 1910. She was fourth of eight children in her family. One of her siblings died few months before she was born. Due to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, she attended a boarding school together with her sisters. Two of her brothers, Tito, and Quique, fought in the Spanish Civil War. At the age of 38, she married Juan Jose Harguindey, but they had no children. They have spent next 24 years in Santiago de Compostela, until her husband, who was a doctor, became ill and they came back to Pontevedra.

Vazquez de Silva died in Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain on 24 December 2021 at the age of 111 years, 270 days. At the time of her death, she was the oldest known living person in Galicia, and the fourth-oldest known living person in Spain, behind Maria Branyas Morera, Saturnino de la Fuente Garcia, and Josefa San Roman Mateos.

Gallery

Early life

As a young woman

References

• El siglo de Lulú en una página La Voz de Galicia, 28 March 2010
• Lulú Vázquez cumple este jueves 108 primaveras Diario de Pontevedra, 29 March 2018
• Reconocimiento a Lulú Vázquez, alumna de 1918 Faro de Vigo, 10 February 2019
• VÍDEO.- Lulú Vázquez cumpre 110 anos e a Policía acode a felicitala Pontevedra Viva, 29 March 2020
• Muere Lulú Vázquez, la abuela de Galicia, a los 111 años Faro de Vigo, 25 December 2021