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23/08/2024 3:27 pm
Carme Noguera Falguera has celebrated her 110 birthday. She was born on 22 August 1914 in Olot (province of Gerona, Spain), the same small city where María Branyas lived for years and died.
She is very healthy and can still walk.
Happy birthday!
23/08/2024 7:50 pm
Happy 110th birthday, Ms. Carme Noguera Falguera ! 🌺
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26/08/2024 12:52 pm
New video of Carme. Since 2:20 she says that she met María Branyas:
Carme and María have many things in common: One was born in Olot and the other one lived and died in Olot, they met each other, some of their surnames sound and are similar (Noguera means walnut tree and Morera means mulberry)... And both have been supercentenarians!
26/08/2024 1:43 pm
@siam Carme appears to be an incredibly fit and mentally sharp supercentenarian. May, at one day, the age of 117 also be a thing she and María share!
Can you translate roughly what she said about their encounter?
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26/08/2024 3:25 pm
What a coincidence that we get a very healthy supercentenarian from Maria's town days after her death
Happy Birthday to Carme Noguera Falguera
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26/08/2024 4:11 pm
@024tomi Some of the spanish women born in 1914 are doing very very well. Bonifacia Valcabado, Ignacia Miranda and Carme Noguera are incredibly well and they can still walk. There is no 110 birthday confirmation of Regina Ramos, but she also was incredibly well last year and still walking. I hope all these women live more years!
Bonifacia Valcabado:
Ignacia Miranda:
Short video of Ignacia:
Carme Noguera:
Short video of Regina Ramos at 109:
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As for the encounter of Carme with María, Carme says in the video that she visited María in her room at the nursing home. As they were from the same generation, María asked Carme for names of people from Olot. Carme said Vayreda (a surname), and María said that didn't know them. Then, Carme said Roura (another surname), and María said she knew them. So they started to talk about that Roura family, and María added that Pilar Roura is buried in Tarragona and Tura Roura is buried in Olot (I suppose they were two friends of María)...
26/08/2024 4:54 pm
As for the encounter of Carme with María, Carme says in the video that she visited María in her room at the nursing home. As they were from the same generation, María asked Carme for names of people from Olot. Carme said Vayreda (a surname), and María said that didn't know them. Then, Carme said Roura (another surname), and María said she knew them. So they started to talk about that Roura family, and María added that Pilar Roura is buried in Tarragona and Tura Roura is buried in Olot (I suppose they were two friends of María)...
Is there any indication of when this happened?
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26/08/2024 8:47 pm
@024tomi It is not mentioned when the encounter happened. But the way that Carme explains how María was asking to her indicates that Maria was very old and deaf.
Furthermore, I have searched the two sisters that Maria and Carme spoke about. And there is an article, in the following link, about Tura Roura from Olot, who wrote about the Spanish Civil War. This woman, whose name is uncommon and lived in Olot, is undoubtedly the woman that María was referring to. According to the article this woman died in 2010. Considering that María told to Carme that Tura was, by the time, buried in Olot, María had to be, at least, 103 (in 2010) and Carme 96. Those were their minimum ages at their encounter... Impressive.
Source:
https://xac.gencat.cat/ca/llista_arxius_comarcals/garrotxa/detall/presentacio_llibreRoura
