Happy 113th birthday to you, Ms. Mariana Penna Monteiro! 🌼 🌺 🌺 🌻 🌻 🌹 🌹 ❤️ 

Feliz Aniversário, Dona Mariana Penna Monteiro. 

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Brazilian Woman Mariana Penna Monteiro Turns 113

Mariana Penna Monteiro, a resident of Itatiba, São Paulo, Brazil, is celebrating her 113th birthday today.

Mariana Penna Monteiro was born in Arceburgo, Minas Gerais, Brazil on 2 September 1912. Her parents were Pedro de Souza Penna, from Mococa, and Mariana Gonçalves Penna, from São José do Rio Pardo. She was the seventh of their children, with siblings Luiz, Messias, Dalva, Olga, Heloisa, José, and João.

Although she was born in Arceburgo, she spent most of her childhood and youth in Mococa, in the interior of São Paulo. She later studied in Itú and Campinas, attending the Normal School on Praça Carlos Gomes. After graduating, she began her career as a teacher, working in schools across small towns and on rural farms throughout São Paulo. Those were formative years, as she traveled extensively while still very young, teaching children in countless places.

Her journey stretched from Arceburgo, Minas Gerais, to numerous cities across São Paulo, including Mococa, Itú, São Paulo, Barra Bonita, Campinas, Araraquara, Mirassol, Pereira Barreto, Floreal, Araçatuba, Taquaritinga, Matão, and Itatiba.

It was in Mirassol that she met Orlando Monteiro (1911–1987). They married in 1946 and had three children together: Maria Cristina, Maria Lúcia, and Orlando Monteiro Junior. In the years that followed, she returned to teaching, eventually retiring from the José Inocêncio da Costa School Group in Matão.