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Ramona Trinidad Iglesias Jordan
Ramona Trinidad Iglesias Jordan
Birth: 1 September 1889
Utuado, Puerto Rico
Death: 29 May 2004
Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
Age: 114 years, 271 days
Country: Puerto RicoPRI,United StatesUSA
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Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan de Soler (1 September 1889 – 29 May 2004) held the title of world's oldest living person after the death of Mitoyo Kawate. She died at the age of 114 years, 271 days and was the oldest person ever from Puerto Rico until Emiliano Mercado del Toro surpassed her record. Before her verification in March 2004, Charlotte Benkner was recognized as the world's oldest living person.

Biography

Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan was born and grew up in Utuado, Puerto Rico, which was then a part of the Spanish empire. Her parents were Eduardo Iglesias-Ortiz and Luisa Jordan-Correa. She was the eldest of 11 siblings, her sister lived to be 101, and her brother lived to be 100. At the time of her death, two of her sisters were still living, at the ages of 94 and 89. The older of these two sisters died in 2016 at the age of 106. 

She was said to be able to recall the Spanish-American war of 1898 and went to a school with Spanish-speaking teachers.   

She married Alfonso Alonzo-Soler in 1912, they never had any children but adopted Roberto Torres-Iglesias, who was 85 at the time of Iglesias-Jordan's death.

Longevity Records

On 26 January 2001 she became the oldest living person in Puerto Rico after the death of Emilia Hernandez de Ramos aged of 111.

On 21 April 2001 she surpassed the age of Emilia Hernandez de Ramos to become the oldest Puerto Rican ever. On his birthdays in 2001, 2002 and 2003 she became the Puerto Rican to reach the respective ages of 112, 113 and 114 years old.

On 13 November 2003 at the age of 114 years and 73 days she became the oldest living person in the world after the death of the Japonese woman Mitoyo Kawate also aged of 114 but 109 days older. Ramona is the first West Indian and Latin American to get the title.

On 14 May 2004 (2 weeks before her death) she became one of the last two people on Earth born in the 1880s (the other is Maria Capovilla).

She died of a pneumonia in Rio Piedras on 29 May 2004 at the age of 114 years and 271 days. After her death another Latin American Maria Capovilla from Ecuador aged of 114 years and 258 days (only 13 days younger) became the oldest living person in the world and the last survivor of the 1880s.

Ramona has been the oldest living person in the world for 198 days. She remained the oldest Puerto Rican ever until Emiliano Mercado del Toro surpassed her age on 20 May 2006. She is also the oldest person to die in 2004.

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World's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (VE)

Lucy WoodmanNancy MerrimanBetsy BakerJennie HowellMathias Hansen SaetherCatherine WallerChristina Karnebeek-Backs • Robert Early • Nettie MinickMary Kelly • James King • Narcissa Rickman • Tome Horigome • Marie Bernatkova • Haruno ShimadaAda Roe • Kitty Harvey • Josefa Salas Mateo • Alice Stevenson • Ettie Crist • Laurence Entiope • Mito Umeta • Niwa Kawamoto • Alice Coles • Josefa Llovet • Eliza UnderwoodAugustine Tessier • Nellie Spencer • Emma WilsonAugusta Holtz • Mary McKinney • Anna Eliza Williams • Florence Knapp • Easter Wiggins • Jeanne Calment • Marie-Louise Meilleur • Sarah Knauss • Ella Miller • Marie Bremont • Maud Farris-Luse • Grace Clawson • Adelina Domingues • Mae Harrington • Yukichi Chuganji • Mitoyo Kawate • Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan • Maria Capovilla • Elizabeth Bolden • Emiliano Mercado del Toro • Emma Tillman • Yone Minagawa • Edna Parker • Maria de Jesus • Gertrude Baines • Kama Chinen • Eugenie Blanchard • Ana Nogueira de LucaMaria Gomes Valentim • Besse Cooper • Dina Manfredini • Jiroemon Kimura • Misao Okawa • Gertrude Weaver • Jeralean Talley • Susannah Mushatt Jones • Emma Morano • Violet BrownNabi Tajima • Chiyo MiyakoKane TanakaLucile RandonMaria Branyas MoreraTomiko Itooka


World's Oldest Living Woman Titleholders (VE)

Nancy MerrimanBetsy BakerJennie HowellCatherine WallerChristina Karnebeek-Backs • Marie Olsen • Mary Kelly • Elizabeth Kensley • Auguste Pahl • Hannah Smith • Yoshigiku Ito • Johanna Booysen • Marie Bernatkova • Haruno ShimadaAda Roe • Josefa Salas Mateo • Alice Stevenson • Elizabeth Watkins • Mito Umeta • Niwa Kawamoto • Sophia DeMuth • Marie-Virginie Duhem • Eliza Underwood • Augustine Tessier • Nellie Spencer • Emma Wilson • Augusta Holtz • Mary McKinney • Anna Eliza Williams • Florence Knapp • Easter Wiggins • Jeanne Calment • Marie-Louise Meilleur • Sarah Knauss • Ella Miller • Marie Bremont • Maud Farris-Luse • Grace Clawson • Adelina Domingues • Mae Harrington • Mitoyo Kawate • Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan • Maria Capovilla • Elizabeth Bolden • Julie Winnefred Bertrand • Emma Tillman • Yone Minagawa • Edna Parker • Maria de Jesus • Gertrude Baines • Kama Chinen • Eugenie Blanchard • Maria Gomes Valentim • Besse Cooper • Dina Manfredini • Koto Okubo • Misao Okawa • Gertrude Weaver • Jeralean Talley • Susannah Mushatt Jones • Emma Morano • Violet Brown • Nabi Tajima • Chiyo MiyakoKane TanakaLucile RandonMaria Branyas MoreraTomiko Itooka


Puerto Rico's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (VE)

Jose del Carmen Matos SantiagoPetronila Ramos GonzalesPedro Zorrilla CaballeroMaria Echeandia CumpianoEmilia Hernandez de RamosRamona Trinidad Iglesias-JordanEmiliano Mercado del ToroFrancisco Haddock NavarroMatilde Monclova LebronUrbana SantiagoMaria Rivera CruzAmparo Cora de SantiagoSecundina Rivera CumbaEmilio Flores MarquezJuan EscribanoRosa Castrodad MelendezBienvenido Diaz GuilfuAna Luisa Garcia

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