Posted on 03/03/2005 10:41:20 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
Brazilian, 125, May Be the Oldest Woman
Thu Mar 3,10:25 PM ET Strange News - AP
By STAN LEHMAN, Associated Press Writer
SAO PAULO, Brazil - An elderly woman living in a small, wooden shack in rural southern Brazil could be the world's oldest living woman, according to a Brazilian record-keeping organization.
Maria Olivia da Silva, who recently celebrated her 125th birthday, "is definitely the oldest living woman in Brazil and possibly in the entire world," said Iolete Cadari, administrative director of RankBrasil, this country's equivalent to the Guinness World Records.
Da Silva's birth certificate shows that she was born Feb. 28, 1880 in the city of Itapetininga, Sao Paulo state, Cadari said by telephone. She currently lives in the small town of Astorga, some 370 miles west of Sao Paulo in the state of Parana.
Laura McTurk, a spokeswoman for Guinness World Records in London said by e-mail that the organization was researching its records for any information on da Silva. She said Guinness may have an official statement on Friday.
According to the Guinness World Records Web site, the world's oldest woman is 113-year-old Hendrikje Van Andel-Schipper, who was born June 29, 1890.
Da Silva, whom Cadari described as "mentally sound and rational," was married twice and has outlived all but three of her 14 children — four of them adopted.
"Her memory is impressive and she loves to talk," Cadari said, adding that Da Silva lives with her 58-year-old adopted son, Aparecido H. Silva.
She inspired the song "The Girl From Itapetininga."
Probably eats Dannon.
The claim is almost certainly bogus. Just about nobody lives past 115, although a French woman I think was verified to have died at age 121. The WSJ had an article on it. Almost all of these claims prove to be bogus.
Math is a little off on years or birth.....
Does feeling 125 count?
I was born on her birth day in 1945.
Correction - I was born on her birthday in 1945.
Carbon dating in use?
I guess we'll have to cut her in half and count the rings.
ROFL!!
So she's single?
If her mother's labor had lasted one more day, Ms. da Silva would only be 31.
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Leap year.
According to the Guinness World Records Web site, the world's oldest woman is 113-year-old Hendrikje Van Andel-Schipper, who was born June 29, 1890.
Correct me if I am wrong but 2005-1890 still equals 115 not 113 right? Just wondering who the math whiz at Guiness is...
114. Her 115th birthday is this June. I think you just took yourself out of contention for the Guinness math whiz job :-)
This is awsome, I believe it. Or rather, I believe its possible. There's always going to be some folks at the top of the curb, and some at the bottom. A life with a low-calorie diet mixed with the right genetics and you could live that long - or longer.
Using the assumptions I made, not a monthly one but a yearly one, I'd say my math stands, wise guy.
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