Beatriz Ferreira Duarte, a resident of Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Pernambuco, Brazil, turned 114 on 21 June and celebrated her birthday on 23 June.
Beatriz Ferreira Duarte was born in Moreno, Pernambuco, Brazil, on 21 June 1911. She grew up in a large family with 12 siblings — 9 sisters and 2 brothers. Her youngest sister, Maria José, died in 2021 at the age of 95.
Beatriz married Amaro Cipriano Duarte, and they settled in Jaboatão dos Guararapes. She focused entirely on homemaking and never worked outside the home. They had eight children, but four died as newborns. In 2019, her daughter Maria Auxiliadora died at age 70. Her husband died in 1990.
Today, Beatriz is the fourth-oldest documented living person in Brazil. Only Izabel Rosa Pereira, Yolanda Beltrão de Azevedo, and Maria Paschoalina de Castro are older and documented.
She is currently the oldest known person ever to have lived in the state of Pernambuco, which, with a population of 9.5 million, is the seventh most populous state in Brazil. She is the first known individual from the state to reach the age of 114.
LongeviQuest extends warm congratulations to Beatriz Ferreira Duarte on her 114th birthday. We would also like to thank her family for sharing photos and videos of the celebration with us through our Brazilian researchers, Gabriel Ainsworth and Iara Souza. We hope she had a wonderful day and wish her many more years of health and happiness.
With her three surviving daughters.
