(Adding categories) |
m (Protected "Laura Oblitas" ([edit=autoconfirmed] (indefinite) [move=autoconfirmed] (indefinite))) |
Revision as of 23:34, 10 December 2017
| Laura Oblitas | |
 Laura Oblitas in her centenarian years. | |
| Unvalidated |
Laura Oblitas (24 August 1907) is an Peruvian-born American supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). She is one of the oldest known living people in New Jersey, USA.
Biography
Laura Oblitas was born on 24 August 1907 in Lima, Peru. Her husband, Miguel, a civil engineer, suffered a stroke in 1949 and was left too disabled to work, she had to support and raise their six children by herself. She had 12 grandchildren, 9 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great grandchildren.
In their hometown, she was voted "Mother of the Year" in 1966, Luis said proudly. All six of Oblitas' children graduated from college, married and have jobs. They brought her to United States in the early 1980s and have taken turns caring for her.
She currently lives in New Jersey at the age of 116 years, 238 days.