Showing posts with label Leandra Becerra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leandra Becerra. Show all posts

Monday, September 1, 2014

Don't get married & live long like me - 127 year-old Leandra Becerra, Oldest woman on earth



A Mexican woman has become the oldest human to have ever lived at the age of 127. Leandra Becerra Lumbreras was said to have been born on August 31, 1887and according to her grand daughter, she said the secret to a long life is eating well, sleeping for days on end and never getting married. Miss Lumbreras reportedly fought in the 1910-1917 Mexican Revolution as a leader of the 'Adelitas' women who went with their husbands to the battle front. The former seamstress also has 73 great-grandchildren and 55 great-great-grandchildren.She already buried her five children and several of her 20 grandchildren - the last died in 2013 aged 90. Her 43 year old grand daughter told Mexico's El Horizonte newspaper she is deaf and suffering form cataracts now..

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