R.I.P. Lola – Believed to be The Oldest Person Ever Dies at age 124
Lola Iska, believed to be the world’s oldest person ever, and the last surviving woman born in the 19th century dies at the reported age of 124. Francisca Susano, also known as Lola Iska, passed away on Monday night in her Philippines home.
The government of her hometown of Kabankalan announced the news on social media.”It is with sadness in our heart when we received the news that our beloved Lola Francisca Susano passed away early this Monday evening, November 22,” Kabankalan’s City Government posted on Facebook.
“Mayor Pedro Zayco, Jr., Vice Mayor Raul Rivera, and all city officials as well as all the people of Kabankalan City condole and pray with the family of Lola Iska in their period of bereavement,” the declaration continued. “Lola Iska is considered the oldest person in Negros Occidental and in the Philippines. Lola Iska will always be an inspiration and a source of pride for us.”
According to Lola, also the oldest person ever in the Philippines, her secret to a long life is a diet high in vegetables and moderate in meat, no pork, and no alcohol.
Cause of Death
Authorities have yet to announce the cause of her death. Nonetheless Lola will be tested for COVID, even though she did not display signs of the illness.
Lola, the supercentenarian, was the World’s last surviving person born in the nineteenth century. She was born on September 11, 1897. The same year Guglielmo Marconi sent the first radio transmission across the open sea, and Gottlieb Daimler built the World’s first meter-equipped (and gasoline-powered) taxicab.
Local officials confirmed Lola’s record-breaking age, two years older than the previous world’s oldest. However, Guinness World Records was still reviewing documents required for her to break the record in September.
Guinness World Records currently awards the greatest fully authenticated age to which any human has ever lived record to Jeanne Louise Calment of Arles, France, who died on August 4, 1997, at the age of 122.
