Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan

Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan de Soler (August 31, 1889 - May 29, 2004) 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.
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.
The Guinness World Records accepted her claim, documentation meeting their standards, and on March 29, 2004, she received a document from them, declaring her the world's oldest living woman. She joined José Miguel Agrelot, Wilfred Benítez and a handful of others as the only Puerto Ricans to enter that book.<ref name="Guinness" />

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