Maria Branyas Morera, World’s Oldest Person, Dies at 117

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Maria Branyas Morera, World’s Oldest Person, ***** at 117

“She had a quiet life, without work stress,” her daughter, Rose, told El País.

In later years, Ms. Morera enjoyed more than a dozen grandchildren. She survived a bout with Covid, as well as the general anxiety and isolation of the pandemic — a feat she found easier, she said at the time, because she remembered a world without the modern-day comforts to which most people had become accustomed.

“We lost an endearing woman, who has taught us the value of life and the wisdom of the years,”

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, the president of the Catalan regional government, said in a post on X.

Ms. Morera became the oldest living person in January 2023, after the ****** of Lucile Randon, a French nun known as Sister André. According to the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks the world’s supercentenarians, the next-oldest living person after Ms. Morera is Tomiko Itooka of Japan, who is 116 years old.

Ms. Morera is survived by her two daughters, who are 91 and 82, and many grandchildren.

Reaching 117 comes with a toll. Ms. Morera suffered hearing and vision loss, and struggled to move freely in recent years. Still, she had no indication of *******, heart ******** or other mortal illnesses. She also never showed signs of dementia.

Having been born before the emergence of the telephone, Ms. Morera came to embrace the digital revolution, fashioning herself on social media as “

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,” or “Super Catalan Grandma.” From there, she posted *****-size pieces of life advice, observations and jokes to thousands of followers.

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