Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan

Who was Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan?

Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan de Soler was a Puerto Rican supercentenarian, and, according to documents compiled in March 2004, the oldest documented person in the world after the death of Mitoyo Kawate, although German American Charlotte Benkner, who was about 3½ months younger, had been given recognition in the meantime.

Iglesias-Jordan was born and grew up in Utuado, the child of Eduardo Iglesias-Ortiz and Luisa Jordan-Correa. She attended a school without American teachers in Puerto Rico. Despite this and the fact that she was only able to attend elementary school, she was fluent in English.

She married Alfonso Soler in 1912. They were interviewed together in the 1920 United States Census when she was 30 and they lived in Arecibo. The couple later moved to the San Juan area known as Santurce. They never had any children of their own, but they adopted Roberto Torres, her nephew.

Her husband died during the late 1970s, and Iglesias-Jordan then spent approximately 25 years by herself, until she moved to a new home.