María Capovilla

María Esther de Capovilla 2005

María Esther Heredia Lecaro de Capovilla (born September 14, 1889 in Guayaquil , Guayas Province , † August 27, 2006 ibid), known as María Capovilla , was an Ecuadorian supercentenarian and from May 29, 2004 the oldest living person in the world . She is the oldest person from both Ecuador and all of South America .

Life

Capovilla was born in 1889 as María Esther Heredia Lecaro in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil as the daughter of a colonel . She grew up in the upper class, did social activities and took art lessons. She neither smoked nor drank hard alcohol. She liked to embroider, play the piano and dance and was very religious until her death and attended mass every week.

In 1917 she married the officer and seaman Antonio Capovilla, who was born in Pula in Austria-Hungary (now Croatia) in 1864 and was 25 years her senior . Capovilla was an ethnic Italian who moved to Chile in 1894 and finally to Ecuador in 1910, his wife had died. María Capovilla had five children with him. Antonio Capovilla died in 1949 at the age of 85.

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At the age of 100, María Capovilla almost died of a stomach disease, but after receiving the Anointing of the Sick , her condition improved and she remained healthy. At the age of 116 she watched TV, read the newspaper and could walk without a support, although she had an assistant. In the last two years of her life, she could not leave her house and lived with her eldest daughter Hilda and her son-in-law. In an interview, she stated that she does not like the fact that women woo men these days, and not just the other way around. Her family attributed her longevity to her inner calm and serenity, as well as drinking donkey milk.

In March 2006, Capovilla's health deteriorated and she was no longer able to read the newspaper. She was almost unable to speak and could only walk with the help of two people. She was able to sit in her chair and fan herself, however, and her condition remained stable until August. However, in late August she developed pneumonia , of which she died on August 27, 2006 at the age of 116 years and 347 days. She left three of her five children (Hilda, 81, Irma, 80, and Anibal, 78) as well as twelve grandchildren, twenty great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. Her life spanned the terms of office of a total of 33 Ecuadorian presidents.

Age records

The oldest confirmed South American of all time was María Capovilla on December 30, 2000. On December 3, 2004, she got into the list of the ten oldest people of all time. After the death of Puerto Rican Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan on May 29, 2004, she became the oldest living person in the world. Guinness World Records only recognized her on December 9, 2005 and thus took this title from Elizabeth Bolden and (after her death) from Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper . Your documents were beyond doubt, said spokesman Sam Knights.

On May 29, 2006, she became the first person since Jeanne Calment to hold the title for two years, and is the last to date (April 2020). When she died, Capovilla was the fourth oldest person of all time; today (as of December 2019) she is tenth. The oldest living person in the world was the American Elizabeth Bolden after her death.

See also

• List of the oldest people
• List of the oldest women

Web links

• The word from the world's oldest person (with photo, English)
• Ecuadorean woman, 116, is world's oldest (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BBC: World's oldest person dies at 116 (English) . Retrieved March 3, 2015.
2. ↑ 116-Year-Old Ecuadorean Woman is Oldest Living Person (English) , Fox News . December 16, 2005. Archived from the original on June 17, 2013. 
3. ↑ Heiner Maier: Supercentenarians . Springer, 2010, ISBN 3-642-11519-5 , p. 256. ( pdf )
4. ↑ Alex Morales: Ecuadorian Usurps Tennessean as World's Oldest Person (Update2, English) , Bloomberg LP . December 14, 2005. Archived from the original on June 17, 2013.