OH NO!!! Husband From World’s Oldest Couple Dies Leaving Behind Wife He Married Nearly 80 Years Ago—110-year-old Julio Cesar Mora Tapia who together with his wife, achieved the Guinness World Record for the world’s oldest married couple has passed away at the age of 110.
He after being married to 104-year-old Waldramina ‘Waldrita’ Maclovia Quinteros Reyes for 79 years, he died at his home in the Ecuadorian capital of Quito, at around 11pm on October 22.
The couple was born in 1910 and 1915 and achieved the Guinness World Record for the world’s oldest married couple in August 2020. Local media reported that Julio Cesar died from “unspecified dementia.”
They had five children, the eldest of which children has passed away. The couple also shared 11 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren, and nine great-great-grandchildren.
Julio Cesar and Wadramina told Guinness World Records in an interview earlier this year that they enjoyed going to the cinema together, gardening and big family dinners.
“It was not easy because our relatives did not have a good relationship, but with time and patience, we were able to unite them, and we became an example and the best reference for the younger generations,” the couple told Guinness World Records.
According to the couple, the success to their long marriage was “love, maturity, and mutual respect.”
The world’s previous oldest living married couple were Masao Matsumoto and Miyako Sonoda from Japan, who tied the knot in October 1937 and were married for 80 year.
