La Rubia, the “grandmother of the neighborhood” in Linares, blows out the candles on six truffles for her a hundred and first birthday: “She didn’t count on it”

An complete neighborhood on the outskirts of Linares, in Jaén, has colluded to rejoice the birthday of La Rubia, the “grandmother of the neighborhood”, who has simply turned 101 years previous. More than 80 individuals organized to present her a shock from her due to her granddaughter Rosa de ella. “I needed to have celebrated it when she turned 100, however we have been confined,” says Rosa.

This time it has been attainable to pay that tribute to the primary inhabitant of the La Vega de Santa María neighborhood, an space that was created above all with neighbors from Granada comparable to La Rubia, who got here from Olivares. Here she arrived along with her husband and right here she has spent her complete life along with her three daughters. “She labored in every kind of factories and her husband within the fields,” says her granddaughter.

Older than her personal neighborhood, there is not any one right here who does not know her. Everyone calls her Tita Rubia as a result of few know that her title is Rosario… and lots of lower than her, her title is definitely Filomena. “When she retired, she discovered that her title was not Rosario as she had at all times been advised,” explains her granddaughter Rosa de ella.

Birthday of the Blonde.NIUS

With greater than a century of life, the Blonde continues to be in her home of a lifetime. She is accompanied day and night time by one in all her daughters who lives close to her. Her reminiscence stays intact regardless of the years and amongst her reminiscences she retains episodes of the battle and the postwar interval. But additionally from a daughter who died or from breast most cancers that she confronted when she was already eighty years previous.

Today, family and friends have thanked him with flowers and a devoted plaque from the neighborhood affiliation. Excited, the Blonde has blown out the candles on one in all her six truffles. “She did not count on it, she has been paralyzed”, says her granddaughter smiling. After so a few years, the Blonde can nonetheless be stunned.