Hato Mayor’s oldest woman died at the age of 113 yesterday, Monday 7 July.
Paula Caraballo remembered events during the governments of Ulises Heureaux, Horacio Vasquez and Rafael Trujillo, and attributed her longevity to eating more meat than rice and root vegetables.
She was born in 1901, at a time when identity cards were a simple piece of paper with names, surnames, addresses and the Dominican shield. Originally from Bayaguana, she moved to Hato Mayor in the 1930s, during the early years of the Trujillo dictatorship.
She and her late husband Bonifacio Aquino had eight children, seven of whom are still alive and all over age 60.
She and her husband used to grow coffee and cocoa. Caraballo said that she was never ill, her only illness was her age and she complained that her children were so poor they hardly gave her any food.
Read more in Spanish: http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias/2014/07/07/i689711_muere-los-113-aos-mujer-vieja-hato-mayor.html