Morocco-born US woman turns 110, oldest naturalized citizen
Morocco, Local, 2/8/2002

Consuelo Moreno, a 110-year old women who was born in Morocco and lived there until 1965, has celebrated her 110th anniversary with her family members.

She usually leads a routine life by last January 31 was anything but routine for one of America's oldest naturalized citizens. It was "Consuelo Moreno Day," as proclaimed by the mayor. She was celebrated with the performance of an 86-year-old flamenco dancer and surrounded by several generations of family members at a party in her honor at Sentara Nursing Center-Virginia Beach.

She has two surviving children, two grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild who were either born in the U.S.A. or had become naturalized Americans. Family was one reason why she Moreno, born to Spanish parents in Tangiers in 1892, decided to become a U.S. citizen five years ago.

Her father drowned when she was 15, and she helped support her family by becoming a seamstress. She kept sewing, mostly for spending money, after she got married.

Her son moved from Tangier to Washington, D.C., in the late 1950s, and Moreno and Sanchez left Morocco for Virginia Beach soon afterward.

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