Adelina Domingues

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Adelina Domingues (born February 19, 1888 in Brava , Cape Verde , † August 21, 2002 in San Diego , California , USA ) was a Cape Verdean American supercentenarian . From May 28, 2002 until her death on August 21, 2002, she was the oldest living person for almost three months. Her age record was recognized posthumously .

Life

Adelina Domingues was born on February 19, 1888 on the Cape Verdean island of Brava in simple circumstances. Her father was of Italian origin and worked as a harbor pilot , her mother was of Portuguese origin.

Domingues worked in her life as a missionary in the free church of the Nazarene in Cape Verde and in other countries on the African continent. She later also worked as a preacher and seamstress in the US state of Massachusetts . Domingues was considered a strictly religious , value conservative person who followed the ideal of the American Dream . Among other things, she maintained a pen pals with the US President Ronald Reagan . She also lived a vegetarian diet and avoided tobacco, alcohol and all kinds of medicine.

Domingues had four children, but only one of them grew up; the others died at an early age. Her son Frank (* 1927) died in 1998 at the age of 71, four years before his mother.

Domingues died in August 2002 in a nursing home in San Diego, USA, at the age of 114 years and 183 days. At that time, Domingues was considered to be the oldest person born in Cape Verde, as well as the oldest person from a Portuguese-speaking country .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World's Oldest Person Title Holders (since 1955). Gerontology Research Group, accessed September 17, 2016 (undated).
  2. ↑ a b c d Tony Perry: Adelina Domingues, 114; Oldest Person in the US In: Los Angeles Times. August 24, 2002, accessed September 17, 2016 .
  3. ^ GRG Table B, Verified Supercentenarians. Gerontology Research Group, accessed September 17, 2016 (undated).
personal data
SURNAME Domingues, Adelina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cape Verdean American Supercentenarian
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Brava , Cape Verde
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 2002
Place of death San Diego , California , USA