Teresa Fernández Casado, a resident of Zambroncinos del Páramo, Castile and León, Spain, and the nation’s second-oldest resident, is celebrating her 112th birthday today, according to RTVE.es.
Teresa Fernandez Casado was born in Zambroncinos del Páramo, on 29 July 1913. She was the youngest of eight siblings. As a child, she took care of sheep but also attended the village school, where she learned to read and write. In her youth, she had an accident at work involving a hoe, where a splinter flew off and caused her to lose much of the vision in one eye.
At the age of 18, she married Julián de Paz Casas, a young man from the village. The following year, her first-born son, Ángel, was born, and her second son, Amancio, was born in September 1933. After the birth of their third child, her husband was called to war, but due to certain circumstances, he did not have to go. They later had six more children. They had a total of nine children. Two of her children passed away in childhood. To support her family, she made cheese from sheep’s milk, knitted woolen socks, and sewed clothes for her children using her sewing machine.
She is currently the second-oldest living person in Spain, after Angelina Torres Vallbona.
LongeviQuest extends warm congratulations to Teresa Fernández Casado on her 112th birthday.
