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Mexican woman becomes world's 'oldest person' - but lost her only proof 40 years ago
The Telegraph ^ | 31 Aug 14 | Alastair Beach

Posted on 08/31/2014 3:52:19 PM PDT by SkyPilot

She was 27 when World War One erupted, 75 when John F. Kennedy was shot and nearly 100 when the Berlin Wall came down.

Now Leandra Becerra Lumbreras is celebrating her latest milestone – becoming the oldest person who has ever lived.

According to relatives and friends, the chocolate-loving Mexican marks her 127th birthday today.

But there will not be any visits from officials at the Guinness Book of Records – she lost her birth certificate while moving house 40 years ago.

Supposedly born on August 31, 1887 – the year Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee – she has attributed her long life to eating well, snacking on chocolate, sleeping for days on end and never getting married, according to her family.

Mexico's El Horizonte newspaper reported that the former seamstress, from the western city of Zapopan, has already seen her five children and several of her grandchildren die.

She apparently has 73 great-grandchildren and 55 great-great-grandchildren.

Granddaughter Miriam Alvear, 43, said: "She is entirely lucid. She blows your mind with her stories from the revolution.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: immigration; mexican; oldest
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1 posted on 08/31/2014 3:52:19 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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She apparently has 73 great-grandchildren and 55 great-great-grandchildren.

And people say there is no way that Noah's family could have repopulated the earth in thousands of years.

2 posted on 08/31/2014 3:53:39 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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Sounds like something from an old movie. Do I believe she’s 127?? Nope...not by a long shot


3 posted on 08/31/2014 3:59:13 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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73 great-grandchildren and 55 great-great-grandchildren, and never married.


4 posted on 08/31/2014 4:00:01 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: SkyPilot

In a world rapidly going to hell - thank you for posting a NICE story!


5 posted on 08/31/2014 4:00:04 PM PDT by EC1
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To: SkyPilot

Ages of her 5 children please.....


6 posted on 08/31/2014 4:00:40 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

I’m sceptical.

Here eyes don’t look old enough.


7 posted on 08/31/2014 4:02:37 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: SkyPilot

So she out lived all of her children???


8 posted on 08/31/2014 4:03:08 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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Sorry I don’t believe it.

Too bad she lost the proof.


9 posted on 08/31/2014 4:05:40 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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73 great-grandchildren and 55 great-great-grandchildren, and never married.

Coming to a country near you. And what's better, you and I get the pleasure of paying for all of it!
10 posted on 08/31/2014 4:08:03 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: SkyPilot

She was born in Mexico in 1887 and she received a paper birth certificate?

I have trouble believing that!


11 posted on 08/31/2014 4:10:41 PM PDT by Ditter
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never married and 5 kids, now i know who to blame


12 posted on 08/31/2014 4:11:17 PM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: Sacajaweau
Sounds like something from an old movie. Do I believe she’s 127?? Nope...not by a long shot

Neither do I.
110 years old, maybe, but not older.

13 posted on 08/31/2014 4:13:09 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: LostInBayport

Preview of coming attractions.


14 posted on 08/31/2014 4:14:22 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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She’s the oldest drug addict...


15 posted on 08/31/2014 4:14:48 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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If Noah’s descendents really repopulated the earth, the genetics would be so fkedup that his descendents would be in constant state of despair, depravity, and brutality. Oh wait


16 posted on 08/31/2014 4:15:46 PM PDT by sagar
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She would have been the world’s oldest person for the last 12 plus years. One would think she would have been touted in that time period and some refernce would exist to confirm the possibilty if not actual verification by GRG.

She may be 110, but she is not 127.

Children out of wedlock in Mexico is doubtful.


17 posted on 08/31/2014 4:17:02 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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How do you lose your proof? And who the hell kept records in Mexico way back then. She has/had 5 children. Where are their birth certificates?

I think she has too much fat on her body to be over 100.

18 posted on 08/31/2014 4:17:12 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: cloudmountain

She looks like 80. Ugly as sin, yes, but not 127 years old.


19 posted on 08/31/2014 4:17:34 PM PDT by sagar
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To: Sacajaweau

“Where are their birth certificates?”

I knew you were a birther.


20 posted on 08/31/2014 4:19:39 PM PDT by sagar
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