Lola Iska Believed to Be World’s Oldest Person Ever Dies at Age 124
A women believed to be the world’s oldest person ever and the last surviving woman born in the 19th century, died 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 confirmed 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 statement added.
“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,” the statement concluded.
Lola’s Secret to Longevity
The secret to Lola’s long life, also the oldest person ever in the Philippines, is thought to be due to a diet high in vegetables and moderate in meat, no pork, and no alcohol consumption.
Cause of Death
Authorities said the cause of death has yet to be determined, but Lola will be tested for COVID, even though she did not display signs of the illness.
The supercentenarian was the world’s last surviving woman 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.
