NCSC finally meets 123-year-old “supercentenarian” in Kalibo, Aklan

After learning the mind-blowing news of what could be the oldest living person on earth at 123-years-old, two NCSC Commissioners flew in from Manila to Aklan and met ‘Lola Rading’ in the flesh here in Bgy. Tigayon in Kalibo, Aklan on Saturday.

Radigondes Sendon Burnasal, fondly called “Lola Rading” has been regarded and believed in this small village to be 123 years old, having been born on May 9, 1900 in Tigayon, Kalibo, Aklan.

Wanting to know the real truth about the startling news, NCSC Chairman Franklin Quijano immediately dispatched a team to verify and validate the sizzling hot item.

Quijano first heard of Lola Rading’s story while traveling from Iloilo to Bacolod aboard a FastCat when a group of passengers approached him and broke the news.

NCSC Commissioners Reymar Mansilungan and Rainier Cruz with this writer first made some inquiries and due diligence before booking the first available flight to Caticlan, Aklan early Saturday morning.

After a lengthy talk with family members, who presented a few documents and old photographs of the “supercentenarian” the two Comms then presented an NCSC certificate of recognition and P10,000 cash gift to Lola Rading.

Youngest daughter Milagros Burnasal showed a document that Lola Rading was already recognized as a centenarian and awarded a P100,000 cash incentive in 2017 by the DSWD as mandated by law.

According to 56-year old Milagros, her mother was a farmer and vegetable vendor in her younger years and was married to Liodegario Burnasal and had 9 children, 6 of whom are still alive.

Google has listed the oldest known living person is Maria Branyas of Spain, aged 116 years, 68 days as January 26, 2023.

The oldest known living man is Juan Vicente Pérez of Venezuela, aged 113 years, 349 days.

Wikipedia added that María Branyas Morera has lived through two world wars, the Spanish civil war, the 1918 flu pandemic and Covid. Now the California-born woman is the world’s oldest living person.

Lola Rading, the super centanarian of Kalibo, creates quite a stir and a possible entry to Guiness world record.

If verified and aunthenticated it would surely serve as a bragging right for Akeanons and the pride of Filipinos.

The civil registry record of Filipinos, born in the 1900s, can only be created thru the “late registration” system.

The Civil Registrar of Libacao, Aklan, registered Mrs. Burnasal’s late registered birth with the PSA, sometime in 2017, thus, the records released by the PSA, indicating her birth on May 9, 1900, and is still living, is truly awesome and one for the books.

(With a report from Region 6 PDO Jack Pamine. Photos and video credits to Cluster Region 4 (Regions 6&7) PDO Janella Catalan)