Izabel Rosa Pereira, a resident of Caputira in the State of Minas Gerais, has been recognized by LongeviQuest as the second-oldest living person in Brazil. To mark the occasion, a commemorative plaque was presented to her. As of 16 March, at the age of 114 years and 154 days, she is also the seventh-oldest validated living person in the world.
Izabel Rosa Pereira was born on 13 October 1910, on the farm of her uncle, Antônio Inácio, near Caputira. She was the daughter of Manoel Pinto Moreira and Francisca Leocádia Moreira, and the fourth of five siblings.
Izabel Rosa Pereira married Antônio José Pereira. Antônio, a widower at the time, already had three children: José, 2 years old; Conceição, 6 years old; and Efigenia, 8 years old. Together, Izabel and Antônio had twelve children, nine of whom were still living as of February 2024: Lairdes, Maria, Manoel, Joaquim, Sebastião, João, Vincent, Francisca, and Helena. Izabel spent her entire life in Caputira. Over the years, the family acquired their own land, where they still reside today. She was widowed in April 2001.
As of February 2024, she also had 30 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren, and 8 great-great-grandchildren.
She is currently the second-oldest person in the country whose age has been documented and validated by an organization specializing in the age verification of supercentenarians. She ranks second only to the world’s oldest living person, 116-year-old Inah Canabarro Lucas, a resident of Rio Grande do Sul.
We would like to congratulate her family and thank them for sharing the latest photos of her. We hope she enjoys many more years of health and happiness with her loved ones. We also extend our gratitude to Iara Souza and Gabriel Ainsworth, our members who not only worked on her age validation but also organized this recognition.
