THE Extremadura Silveria Martín Díaz, who last August, at 114 years old, became the oldest woman in Spain and the ninth oldest person in the worlddied this Wednesday. Silveria lived in the retirement home “El Prado”, in the town of Villanueva de la Vera, in Cáceres, as reported by the website Extremeños Centenarios, which announced the news of his death. He was born on June 20 1910 in Talavera la Viejaknown as Talaverilla, the town of Cáceres became a reservoir in 1963, in the Valdecañas reservoir.
And there she grew up, married José “El Retratista” – as his neighbors knew him – and her children were born. five children and they lived until they were 53, until the eviction order came from the city and the family had to rebuild their lives in another place. Silveria and her husband spent a year in Rosalejo, the colonization municipality where 80 percent of the Talaverilla residents settled, but then ended up emigrating to France with their children, where they were going to work.
She He was always devoted to his family and home.“She loved to cook, knit, crochet, she couldn’t stay at home, she was and still is a very active woman,” said her daughter, Julia Arroyo Martín, on her 112th birthday.
Silveria Martín was ranked first as the oldest in Spain on August 20 after the death of 117 years and 168 days of Maria Branyas in Santa Maria del Tura in Olot (Girona). Branyas was not only the oldest person in Spain, but also in the world.
