115-Yr-Old Spanish Woman Creates World Record

At the age of 115 years, a Spanish woman named Maria Branyas Morera made it to the Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest living person. She received this rare honour following the death of 118-year-old Lucile Randon of France.

According to Guinness World Records on January 19, 2023, Maria Branyas Morera was 115 years and 321 days old.

She was born in San Francisco, California, on March 4, 1907, one year after her parents immigrated to the US. She returned back to Spain along with her parents eight years later.

Morera is staying in ResidEncia Santa Maria del Tura, a nursing home in Catalonia in Spain for the last 22 years.

The nursing home has decided to celebrate her entry into the record book as the oldest living human on earth. The nursing home said in a statement, “She is in good health and continues to be surprised and grateful for the attention that this anniversary has generated. To celebrate this very special event we will have a small celebration behind closed doors in the residence in the coming days.”

In 1931, she married Joan Moret, a physician of Catalan. The couple had happy married life of four decades until her husband died at the age of 72.

At present, she has three children, 11 grandchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren.