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Dominga Velasco
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Dominga Velasco or Dominguita (May 12, 1901 - October 11, 2015) was a Mexican-American pioneer, Latino activist, and a Mexican-born American supercentenarian. She is the oldest verified person ever born in Mexico. She was the world's seventh-oldest living person, the second-oldest person living in the United States (behind Susannah Mushatt Jones) and the oldest living resident of California at the time of her death. Biography Velasco was born in Jalisco, Mexico, but she grew up in Coahuila. Her father was a shoemaker. They spent three years in El Paso and they later moved to California and settled in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland. She first worked at the California Fruit Packing Company but that was only seasonal work so she then moved to the California Candy Company commuting from San Francisco to Oakland. Velasco died on the morning of Sunday, October 11, 2015 at her home in Las Posada de Colores, Fruitvale district of Oakland, California. |
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