Eduarda Estrada Cabrera

BIOGRAPHY

Eduarda Estrada Cabrera was born in Pénjamo, Guanajuato, Mexico, on 13 October 1901. She spent most of her childhood in the community of Coporitos, assisting her parents, Atanasio Estrada and Antonia Cabrera, with household chores and farming. She described her childhood as the saddest period of her life due to the hardships of the Mexican Revolution (1910–17). During that time, she endured frequent mistreatment from revolutionaries. According to accounts, the unrest persisted until the government organized a rally in Pénjamo to unite the community against those who were looting. Estrada also lived through extreme poverty, a reality she remembered with deep melancholy.

Following the Revolution, she married Eusebio Chavolla, who passed away ten years later. She later met Manuel Ramírez Miranda, also a widower, and they married, raising two children together, Jorge and Antonia. Estrada was widowed once more in 1985.

By her 109th birthday, she dedicated much of her day to prayer. At that time, her family had grown to include 19 grandchildren, 56 great-grandchildren, and 8 great-great-grandchildren. Despite experiencing cramps, headaches, and deafness that hindered her hearing, she was otherwise healthy and able to walk with assistance.

RECOGNITION

In October 2011, she celebrated her 110th birthday, becoming the first documented supercentenarian in the state of Guanajuato. However, the first documented supercentenarian born in the state was María Parra González (1891–2002), although she passed away in Mexico City.

Eduarda Estrada Cabrera holds the record as the oldest documented person ever born or deceased in Guanajuato.

Her age was listed as pending validation by the Latin American Supercentenarians (LAS) as of 13 May 2021. At the time, she was a limbo case, last confirmed alive at the age of 109 in October 2010. The validation process was carried out by researchers James Roberts, Gabriel Ainsworth, Stefan Maglov, and Fabrizio Villatoro, and validated by LongeviQuest on 24 December 2024.

ATTRIBUTION

* “Eduardita es la más longeva de Pénjamo” – Periódico Correo, 14 October 2010

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