Ana Mara Vela Rubio

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Spanish supercentenarian who died on 15 December 2017, aged 116 years and 47 days. On 29 October 2016 she became the only Spanish person to reach 115 years. She became the oldest verified Spaniard ever on 6 June 2016, when she surpassed the record of María Antonia Castro who died in 1996, aged 114 years, 220 days and was also the oldest Spanish-born person from 4 April 2017 when she surpassed the record of Emiliano Mercado del Toro. At the time of her death she was the third-oldest living person in the world, behind Nabi Tajima and Chiyo Miyako. She became the oldest living European upon the death of former world's oldest person Emma Morano on 15 April 2017. She remains the third oldest person ever from Europe behind Jeanne Calment and Emma Morano. Vela Rubio worked as a dressmaker in her youth. She never married her partner as her parents objected to him, but the two had several children. Her daughter, also named Ana, lived with her. Link to Wikipedia biography