| Ramona Trinidad Iglesias Jordan | |
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| Birth: | 1 September 1889 Utuado, Puerto Rico |
| Death: | 29 May 2004 Río Piedras, Puerto Rico |
| Age: | 114 years, 271 days |
| Country: |  PRI, USA
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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.
Gallery
References
- LIST OF VALIDATED SUPERCENTENARIANS (LISTED CHRONOLOGICALLY BY DATE OF BIRTH) updated on 4 June 2024
- 2004 validations Gerontology Research Group
- Las personas más longevas Supercentenarios Latinoamericanos (LAS)
- Orlando Sentinel, 23 April 2004
- Puerto Rico Herald, 1 June 2004
- Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, 114; Oldest Person in the world Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2004
- Civil Registration from October 1889
- Obituary of Isabel Iglesias-Maldonado
- Ramona Trinidad Iglesias Jordán FamilySearch
| Puerto Rico's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • E) |
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Jose del Carmen Matos Santiago • Petronila Ramos Gonzales • Pedro Zorrilla Caballero • Maria Echeandia Cumpiano • Emilia Hernandez de Ramos • Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan • Emiliano Mercado del Toro • Francisco Haddock Navarro • Matilde Monclova Lebron • Urbana Santiago • Maria Rivera Cruz • Amparo Cora de Santiago • Secundina Rivera Cumba • Emilio Flores Marquez • Juan Escribano • Rosa Castrodad Melendez • Bienvenido Diaz Guilfu • Ana Luisa Garcia |