Josefa Maria da Conceicao | |
Josefa Maria da Conceicao at the claimed age of 117. | |
Birth: | 7 February 1902? Brazil |
Death: | 27 February 2023 Pilar, Maceio, Alagoas, Brazil |
Age: | 121 years, 20 days? |
Country: | BRA |
Longevity claimant |
Josefa Maria da Conceicao [Portuguese: Conceiçao] (7 February 1902? – 27 February 2023) was a Brazilian longevity claimant whose age is currently unvalidated by the Guinness World Records (GWR). If her claimed age were validated, she would have been older than the world's oldest validated person Maria Branyas Morera, and the oldest living person in Brazil, being older than Inah Canabarro Lucas.
Biography
Josefa Maria da Conceicao claimed to have been born in Brazil on 7 February 1902. She had 22 children, four of whom are alive in October 2019, including Sebastiao Rozendo.
In 2019, she had 36 grandchildren, 36 great-grandchildren and 42 great-great-grandchildren. She smokes since the childhood. According to her, the secret of longevity is to sleep well and eat well. Her daughter, Cicera Rozendo, revealed what kind of food her mother always ate: Farm food: macaxeira, yam, potatoes, string beans, guandu beans, fava beans, maize, cornmeal, all of it, peanuts.
Josefa Maria da Conceicao died in Pilar, Maceio, Alagoas, Brazil on 27 February 2023, at the claimed age of 121 years, 20 days.
References
- Alagoana de 117 anos pode entrar para o Guinness como a pessoa mais velha do mundo Voz da Bahia, 2 October 2019
- Confirmed alive at 118
- Confirmed alive at 119
- Moradora da cidade do Pilar-AL completa 120 anos nesta segunda-feira, garante família
- La brasileña Josefa Maria da Conceicao, que asegura tener 120 años, dejó de fumar hace poco Twitter post, 11 July 2022
- Alagoana de 121 anos morre no Pilar globo.com, 27 February 2023