The mayor of San Javier, Juan Martínez Pastor and the Councillor for Social Services, Francisca Naranjo this morning visited the residence in San Jose, San Javier, Maria Dolores Gea Flames, on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
Surrounded by his entire family, María Dolores Gea ensured "not fit in clothes" with emotion as he received a plate with a commemorative inscription handed the Mayor and a bouquet of flowers offered by the councilor.
Partners and staff of the residence also surrounded María Dolores Gea that blew out the candles on a cake with 3 floors which celebrated its 100 years.
An age that has come "without complications", and is the only thing that has failed is the legs, "because I have no cholesterol, no sugar."
It takes a protective stomach and an analgesic, recalls the director of the residence.
"I remember even when I was born," says the woman who still belongs to the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Sorrows in Velez-Rubio, his people, in Almería.
A San Javier came 40 years attracted by one of his three children who lives in the municipality ago.
Both liked that it ended up buying "a small house in which I have been very happy."
For 7 years living in the Residencia San José, belonging to the Congregation of Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate, which claims to follow delighted with the treatment and care you receive.
Work is the only secret that comes to mind to explain how Maria Dolores has reached 100.
"A lot of work, and a simple life," says this woman who was widowed 27 years ago, and always worked in the farming and ranching of his family.
Of the memories of his long life comes to mind the arrival of a letter home, when she was 7, announcing the death of his father in Barcelona.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier