Biography
Silverio Pérez Rosado was born in Camarones, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, on 20 June 1914. He attended school only up to the third grade.
Pérez Rosado was married twice. After he was widowed in the early 1940s, he entered into a second marriage with Victorina Figueroa Amador on 9 December 1944. In total, he fathered 14 children (three with the first wife, 11 with the second wife). He made his living working as a carpenter.
His eldest son, Silverio Pérez Figueroa (born 1948), is a Puerto Rican musician, writer, comedian, entrepreneur and broadcasting media host. In May 2023, he released a book titled “El secreto de mi padre” (English: My Father’s Secret), a biographical work that unveils the secrets behind his father’s longevity.
His uncle lived to be more than 100, his brother Teofilo Perez Rosado (1912–2014) lived to be 102, and two other siblings lived to be 92 and 89 respectively.
Up until he was around 109, he remained capable of crafting small tables and chairs in his carpentry workshop. His second wife passed away on 23 June 2022, at the age of 97, after 77 years of marriage. At the time, he had 37 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. In March 2022, at the age of 107, he underwent craniotomy surgery. At that time, his son, Silverio, reported that his father had undergone two hip operations and had experienced severe bronchitis at various points in his life.
