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Maria Branyas Morera
Maria Branyas Morera (born 4 March 1907) is an American-born Spanish supercentenarian whose age is validated by Gerontology Research Group (GRG). She is the oldest living person in Spain. Maria is also among the oldest living people known to have survived COVID-19, which she contracted at the age of 113 in April 2020.
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Biography
Maria Branyas Morera was born in the United States on 4 March 1907. Her family emigrated to San Francisco, California, USA in 1906. They later traveled to New Orleans, from here they departed to Olot, Catalonia, Spain in 1915. While emigrating to Spain aboard the Catalania, Branyas Morera injured her eardrum in a fall, resulting in her permanently losing hearing in one ear. Towards the end of the voyage, Branyas Morera’s father, Joseph Branyas Julia, died from pulmonary tuberculosis at age 37, leaving Branyas Morera’s mother to raise the family of five on her own.
Branyas Morera married in 1931 and had three children.
In 2000, when she was 93, Branyas Morera moved into a care home in Olot. At the age of 110, she reportedly still read the newspaper every day. On 22 December 2019, Branyas Morera became the oldest known living person in Spain following the death of Josefa Santos Gonzalez. As of 2019, she had 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. She is the last (known) living person in Europe born in 1907.
Branyas Morera is deaf in one ear and partially deaf in the other, with precautions taken at her nursing home this made communication difficult, but using a voice-to-text device, her relatives are able to communicate fluently.
Aside from being the oldest-living validated person in Spain, she is also the oldest person ever born in the U.S. state of California, as well as the second-oldest validated living American-born person, after Thelma Sutcliffe.
COVID-19 Survival
In April 2020, at the age of 113, Branyas Morera tested positive for COVID-19, but successfully recovered. She was the oldest recorded survivor of the disease until Lucile Randon, then 116, of France recovered in 2021. In a subsequent interview with the Observer, Branyas Morera called for a revolution in treatment of the elderly, saying “This pandemic has revealed that older people are the forgotten ones of our society. They fought their whole lives, sacrificed time and their dreams for today’s quality of life. They didn’t deserve to leave the world in this way.”
In January 2021, Branyas Morera received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, making her one of the oldest validated supercentenarian to get vaccinated.